No longer an operating lighthouse, it marked the turning point for shipping in the main navigational channels between Port Phillip Heads and Melbourne.

[citation needed] The lease for the Arthurs Seat run was not obtained in 1834 but in late 1843, Georgianna McCrae did not reside there until mid 1845, and the family lived there for only six years not a century.

The first time Dromana West was used to describe a locality was in 1930*, after the Pre-emptive right had been subdivided, lot 8 being the Arthurs Seat Homestead on 40 acres which was advertised for sale in November 1925 after the death of Miss Kathrine Burrell a few months earlier.

Frankston Railway Station and Portsea, via Frankston Post Office, Mount Eliza, Mornington Post Office, Mount Martha, Moat's Corner, Dromana, McCrae, Rosebud, Rosebud West, Rye and Sorrento, twelve times weekly, November, to April, and eleven times weekly, May to October, (inclusive).

[citation needed] In March 2011, McCrae Yacht Club hosted the Victorian Championship regattas for the A-Class Catamarans.