Springton. Adelaide Hills. The Herbig tree where Friedrich Herbig his wife and two babies lived for two years until he built a pug and pine house. 1858 to 1860.
Springton –near the South Rhine, now the Marne.
George Fife Angas established a dairy on part of his Special Survey land which he called Black Springs Dairy in the early 1840s. Transport was an issue so the dairy produced cheese. The cows grazed on the abundant Kangaroo grass paddocks of the area. By the mid 1850s the Kangaroo grass was eaten out and the land was turned into wheat fields. Angas set up many tenant farmers on his land near Springton but the government had some land in the district to sell too. Once the first land was sold here in 1864 it became known as Springton, a village laid out with 287 town lots- a large town. No blocks were purchased until 1865 but Mr Lutzow’s store pre-dated the surveying of the town in 1865. This building was probably the store next to the Black Spring Hotel which opened around 1861. The state school in Springton, which was rebuilt in 1921, started in 1868. An Anglican Church was built in the town in 1866. There is a small cemetery at Friedensburg and that is where many of the Herbig family are buried beside the early Lutheran Church there. The Lutheran church in Springton itself was built in 1899. An early gain for the town in 1865 was the creation of the District Council of South Rhine which was based in Springton. This was amalgamated into Mt Pleasant Council in 1935. In the 20th C the town was also boosted after World War One when 6,000 acres of land owned by the Gilbert family of Pewsey Vale was subdivided for soldier settler farms.
Although Friedrich Herbig had a large family most did not live in the Herbig Gum Tree. Friedrich Herbig married Caroline Rattey, a Polish Lutheran from Houffnungsthal near Lyndoch in 1858. Her village had been washed away during floods just before this date. As Friedrich Herbig had no residence on his land the young couple lived in the giant River Red gum. In July 1859 their first son, Johann August was born. Once a second son Johann Wilhelm was born in September 1860 Friedrich quickly built a two roomed pug cottage for the growing family. In 1864 they progressed to a stone house. Eventually they had nine sons and seven daughters and the family prospered. Friedrich fell from a wagon of hay in 1886 and died. Caroline lived on until 1927. It was one of their sons, Johann C Herbig who donated the land for the current St John’s Lutheran Church in Springton.
Springton. Adelaide Hills. The Herbig tree where Friedrich Herbig his wife and two babies lived for two years until he built a pug and pine house. 1858 to 1860.
Springton –near the South Rhine, now the Marne.
George Fife Angas established a dairy on part of his Special Survey land which he called Black Springs Dairy in the early 1840s. Transport was an issue so the dairy produced cheese. The cows grazed on the abundant Kangaroo grass paddocks of the area. By the mid 1850s the Kangaroo grass was eaten out and the land was turned into wheat fields. Angas set up many tenant farmers on his land near Springton but the government had some land in the district to sell too. Once the first land was sold here in 1864 it became known as Springton, a village laid out with 287 town lots- a large town. No blocks were purchased until 1865 but Mr Lutzow’s store pre-dated the surveying of the town in 1865. This building was probably the store next to the Black Spring Hotel which opened around 1861. The state school in Springton, which was rebuilt in 1921, started in 1868. An Anglican Church was built in the town in 1866. There is a small cemetery at Friedensburg and that is where many of the Herbig family are buried beside the early Lutheran Church there. The Lutheran church in Springton itself was built in 1899. An early gain for the town in 1865 was the creation of the District Council of South Rhine which was based in Springton. This was amalgamated into Mt Pleasant Council in 1935. In the 20th C the town was also boosted after World War One when 6,000 acres of land owned by the Gilbert family of Pewsey Vale was subdivided for soldier settler farms.
Although Friedrich Herbig had a large family most did not live in the Herbig Gum Tree. Friedrich Herbig married Caroline Rattey, a Polish Lutheran from Houffnungsthal near Lyndoch in 1858. Her village had been washed away during floods just before this date. As Friedrich Herbig had no residence on his land the young couple lived in the giant River Red gum. In July 1859 their first son, Johann August was born. Once a second son Johann Wilhelm was born in September 1860 Friedrich quickly built a two roomed pug cottage for the growing family. In 1864 they progressed to a stone house. Eventually they had nine sons and seven daughters and the family prospered. Friedrich fell from a wagon of hay in 1886 and died. Caroline lived on until 1927. It was one of their sons, Johann C Herbig who donated the land for the current St John’s Lutheran Church in Springton.