Dights Falls Timeline

By maddy_zugna

  • Exploration of the Yarra River

    Exploration of the Yarra River
    Charles Grimes, a Surveyor General of New South Wales was the first European to explore the Yarra River.
    This image is of Charles Grimes.

  • Settlement of Melbourne

    Settlement of Melbourne
    Melbourne was first settled and the land was sub-divided.
    This image is of Melbourne when it was being settled.

  • John Dight

    John Dight
    John Dight purchased Melbourne block 88, which was 26 acres and £481.
    This image is of block 88.

  • Move to Port Phillip

    John Dight notified his flour customers through the local newspaper that he was relocating to Port Phillip.

  • First Steam Powered Mill

    First Steam Powered Mill
    John Dight just constructed the first steam powered mill in Melbourne.
    This is a photo of the first steam powered mill.

  • New Weir

    John Dight constructed a rough weir.

  • Abandoning Milling

    John Dight and the Dight family abandoned and stopped flour milling.

  • Selling the Property

    The property was sold to Edwin Trennery and he sub-divided the land.

  • Restarting the Mill

    The original mill on the river bank was left unoccupied until this time when flour millers Gillespie, Aitken, and Scott run under the name 'Yarra Falls Roller Flour Mills' constructed a new mill.

  • Melbourne Flour Milling Company

    Melbourne Flour Milling Company bought the land with the new mill.

  • New Timber Structure

    A new timber structure was built to provide water to the Melbourne flour milling company.

  • New Owners

    The land changed owner for the final time before being destroyed in a fire.

  • First Reconstruction

    First Reconstruction
    The first reconstruction occurred at Dights Falls.
    This is an image of Dights Falls when it was first constructed.

  • Another Rebuild

    In 1940, there was another rebuild at Dights Falls.

  • Timber Capping

    The original temper piles at the mill were capped by concrete.

  • Fish Barrier

    Melbourne Water realised that the weir was a barrier for fish migration. They constructed a rock fish way to allow fish to move around.

  • New Fishway

    New Fishway
    In 2012, a new Fishway was built to update the old Fishway.
    The image is a phot of the new fishway being built.

  • Dights Falls. Now

    Dights Falls. Now
    Here is a map of Dights Falls 2014.