OUR HERITAGE
Surrounded by rolling hills and stands of ancient red gums, Eden Valley is known as the ‘Garden of Grapes and Gums’.

ABOUT EDEN VALLEY
Before white settlement in Eden Valley the area was inhabited by the Peramangk people and evidence of this can still be found close to the present town. However the Peramangk had largely moved on by the time to town was established.
The Eden Valley township has its beginnings in the 1850s on land owned by William Lillecrapp, a wealthy Gumeracha farmer who had emigrated from England in 1837. In 1862 he sold land for £15 for the building of a church and school to a group of Prussian Lutherans who had left their homeland to avoid religious persecution. They had arrived in 1838, having received monetary assistance for the voyage from George Fife Angas, and English businessman who later bought large tracts of land in the Barossa and Flaxmans Valley
