[2] It draws its name from Springs Dairy which was on the site before the town subdivision was surveyed.

This tree was used as the first home in South Australia of Friedrich Herbig when he migrated from Germany in 1855.

He married three years later and his first two children were born in the tree before he built a hut nearby in 1860.

[6] All of Friedrich Herbig's children and almost half of his grandchildren attended the school.

[citation needed] Springton is in the Eden Valley wine region.