Dight's Mill

In Yarra Bend Park, there's also an attraction called the Dight's Mill. A mill is a type of equipment used for grinding or pulverizing of grain and other raw materials using milestones. The Dight's Mill is one of Melbourne's oldest and most significant industrial sites. In the early 1840's John Dight established Melbourne's first water-powered flour mill on the site. In 1888, 'Yarra Falls Roller Mills' bulit a water-turbine powered mill, which was the largest and most sophisticated of the thirty two water powered mills, bulit in Victoria before 1900. It opened to the public at that time.

The Dights Mill and millrace was normally bulit out of natural rock. Natural rock can be found in rivers and waterfalls across Australia and across Asia and some in South America. It can also be seen in mostly national parks.