Dights Falls

At this point the river narrows and is constricted between 800,000-year-old volcanic, basaltic lava flow and a much older steep, silurian, sedimentary spur.

The rock falls would have provided the Aboriginal people with a natural river crossing and place to trap migrating fish.

[5] Sailing on the schooner Cumberland, under the command of Acting Lieutenant Charles Robbins, the party entered Port Phillip on 20 January 1803.

In 1839, John Dight, a flour miller previously based in Campell Town, New South Wales, purchased a block of land next to the falls and in 1841, built a water-powered mill there.

[9] With the eventual transition to mains water at the Gardens and electric lifts in City buildings, the Pumping Station was decommissioned and demolished in 1964.