Historic Herbig Tree

Family Tree

This is an amazing old, large red gum tree (which is about 300-500 years old). This wasn't a planned visit, but it was on the way to our hotel in Tanunda. It doesn't stand out like what we were expe...

One Big Very Old Gum Tree

This ancient old gum tree sits beside the highway near Springton and provided shelter for one Frederich Herbig. The tree must be very old and a miracle it survives but happy it has.Across the road i...

Pretty Interesting

A settler actually lived under this tree for quite a while, married, had kids, and continued to live under this tree. Pretty cool, and lots of information of who he and his family were.

Driving through Springton

We took friends from Queensland to visit the Herbig Family Tree which we hadn't seen before, it was a very interesting story, so impressed to see Simon Goodwin (AFL Football Legend) was a descendant o...

The orginal tree house?

This old hollow gum tree is ancient, perhaps 500 years old. Nothing is known of its early history until the arrival of Friedrich Herbig and his marriage in 1858 when the tree became home to the couple...