The earliest European settler in this area was Donald McLean, who selected Section 50, Hundred of Adelaide, of  in 1837, (the area was originally part of Hilton) and with his family ploughed and sowed 20 acres of seed wheat, and in 1838 reaped the first harvest of wheat in South Australia. The McLean property was dvided into nine allotmennts of 8.75 acres in the 1860s.
The earliest European settler in this area was Donald McLean, who settled Section 50, Hundred of Adelaide, in 1837 (the area was originally part of Hilton). He and his family cultivated 20 acres of wheat seed that year, and harvested the first crop in South Australia in 1838.  In the 1860s, McLean's property was divided into nine plots of 8.75 acres each.