Herbig Family Tree (9/365)
Springton, South Australia (near the Adelaide Hills/Barossa Valley Border)
Our Daily Challenge group. Topic: Tree.
This tree was home to J. F. Herbig and later his family from 1855-1860. He arrived by ship in Port Adelaide in October 1855 from Gruenberg (now the Polish city of Zielona Gora), in Silesia, Prussia.
He made his home in the gnarled old hollow red gum, 20 feet wide at its base and standing some 70 feet high. Located near the bank of a stream which falls into the River Rhine, it was to be his dwelling for the next five years.
He lived alone in the tree until July 1858 when he was married and joined by his 18-year old wife Anna Caroline Rattery. 13 months later they had their first son. After the birth of their second son they built a pine and pug dwelling nearby. They went on to have a total of 16 children.
As of 2004, there were five families of their descendants who still lived in the area. They erected signs inside the tree and created the memorial (which this information comes from).
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January 9
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