[3][6] It is named after Grace Montgomery Farrell, widow of Rev C. B. Howard, the first South Australian Colonial Chaplain; she later married James Farrell, Dean of Adelaide.

[10] It also had a Methodist (originally Bible Christian) Church, which opened in 1868 and closed in 1971.

[11] The church is now a private residence and the former school was destroyed in the 2015 Pinery bushfire.

[12] The former recreation reserve 'Moquet Lee' is located behind the church where there is also the Grace Plains cemetery.

[13] Grace Plains Post Office opened in October 1879 and closed on 3 April 1884.