Mount Pleasant - Places to See

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Mount Pleasant - Places to See


Herbig Tree and Homestead Heritage Centre
The Herbig Tree, located in Springton north of Mount Pleasant, is an extraordinary chapter in the German history of the area. Friedrich Herbig was a tailor turned farmer who arrived in South Australia in 1855. He travelled to the area where he leased 80 acres from George Angas. Desperately poor he decided to live in the famous Herbig Family tree. It was a large, hollow red gum. It was between 300-500 years old, had probably been struck by lightning, had a huge area inside and secondary growth was starting to occur above the old trunk. A year after his arrival Herbig married Caroline Rattey, an illiterate 18-year-old peasant girl, at Lyndoch. He took her back to live with him in the tree and it was there that the first two of their sixteen children were born. In 1860 Herbig and his family moved out of the tree to a two room pine and pug hut he built about 400 metres away. By 1864 the family was living in a stone cottage. The Heritage Homestead centre includes the original cottage, a barn and a cellar. It offers a rare insight into the life of the early settlers. Details: Contact (08) 8568 2757.


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