It was later subject to selection—although it seems there was some 'dummying' by the Pierce family to retain effective control of their land—and also to subdivision, resulting in the smaller landholdings still apparent today.

[13][14][15][16] Jack Riley (1841-1914), one of the men who are held to be the inspiration for the character in the poem, The Man from Snowy River, was employed by the Pierce family of Greg Greg, although he lived for much of the time in an isolated cabin at Tom Groggin, where the Pierces had a grazing lease.

[17] There is no bridge across the Murray at Greg Greg—the nearest are upstream at Towong and downstream at Tintaldra—but the old fording location known as the 'Lighthouse Crossing', lies immediately south of the locality.

This old crossing was the scene of many accidental deaths and near misses, before the construction of the bridge at Towong.

[2][18][19][20][21][22][23] Prior to Federation, the area around the old crossing was the location of smuggling activities to evade inter-colonial customs duties and other border controls.