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John Dight of Campbell Town acquired portion 88, Parish of Jika Jika, County of Bourke, on 7 November 1838. Over the next few years, he constructed a brick mill on the site and began the production of flour.
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In November 1843, ownership of the land passed to John Dight and his brother Charles Hilton Dight.
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In 1864, the flour milling use was abandoned and the mill leased to Thomas Kenny. In the mid-1870s.
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In the mid-1870s, the site was used by the Patent Safety Blasting Powder Co.
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The Dight family sold the mill site to Edwin Trennery in 1878 and he subsequently subdivided the land.
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The original mill on the river bank remained unoccupied until 1888, when flour millers Gillespie, Aitken and scott operating under the name of 'Yarra Falls Roller Flour Mills' constructed a new mill and associated buildings on the site. -
In 1890, the founding Act of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works was established and the Board issued a licence to the company in 1895 for the construction and maintenance of the weir at the Falls. 1890 - 1895
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This enterprise was sold in 1891 to the Melbourne Flour Milling Company, run by the Hon. James Bell.
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In 1909 The Melbourne Flour Milling Co sold its mill and plant on the banks of the Yarra at Abbotsford to Messrs John Darling and Son, the well-known millers and wheat merchants of South Australia.
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John Darling and Son extended the lease with the Board of Works, but for a period of only three months. However, the mill suffered a disastrous fire and was destroyed. Most of what remained of the mill buildings removed from the site in the twenty years following the fire. The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works has controlled and owned the site for most of the twentieth century. The site consists of the remains of the headrace, tailrace, turbine house, retaining wall, and weir.