Greg Greg is a rural locality in the Snowy Valleys Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia.
The locality lies on the route between Tumbarumba and Corryong. The western boundary of the locality is the Murray River (N.S.W. - Victoria border). Greg Greg lies close to where the Murray's course changes direction from generally south-to-north to generally eest-to-west. Its northern boundary is the left bank of the Tooma River, and its eastern boundary is with Kosciuszko National Park.[2] To its south lies the rural locality of Bringenbrong.[3] The area of the locality includes the parish of the same name, but also includes part of the neighbouring parish of Welumba.[4][5]
The area now known as Greg Greg lies close to the boundaries of the traditional lands of Ngarigo and Jaimathang peoples.[6]
Greg Greg takes its name from an early grazing run operated by John Pierce (1817—1897), from at least the early 1860s.[7][8][9] The origin of the name Greg Greg is the settlers' rendering of an Aboriginal word, said to imitate the croaking of frogs.
The area is relatively well-watered cattle grazing country. 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.[10][11][12][4] The Pierce family and Greg Greg Station became well known for breeding of thoroughbred horses, providing horses to annual horse sales into the 1950s.[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. It is known that the poet, A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson, had met Riley.[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.[8][24] The lands bordering the Murray were particularly affected by colonial-era customs policies.[25]
There was a school at Greg Greg from 1881 to 1887[26] and again from 1950 to 1968.[27]
^Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Greg Greg (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
^ ab"Greg Greg · New South Wales 2642, Australia". Google Maps. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^"Bringenbrong · New South Wales 3707, Australia". Google Maps. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^ ab"Parish of Greg Greg, County of Selwyn [cartographic material]". Trove. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
^"Parish of Welumba, County of Selwyn [cartographic material] : Land District of Tumbarumba, Tumbarumba Shire, Eastern Division N.S.W." Trove. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
^Studies, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (10 January 2021). "Map of Indigenous Australia". aiatsis.gov.au. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^"Advertising". Albury Banner and Wodonga Express. 29 March 1862. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^ ab"ALBURY POLICE COURT". Albury Banner and Wodonga Express. 8 November 1862. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^"TUMBARUMBA". Albury Banner and Wodonga Express. 22 January 1897. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
^"ALBURY DISTRICT COURT". Albury Banner and Wodonga Express. 29 June 1867. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
^"COURT OF INQUIRY UNDER THE LAND ACT". Albury Banner and Wodonga Express. 18 December 1875. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^"GREG GREG ESTATE". Argus. 30 September 1911. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
^"MR. JOHN PIERCE". Daily Advertiser. 4 February 1930. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
^"THOROUGHBREDS SOLD". Argus. 12 December 1934. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
^"GREG GREG SALE". Argus. 20 November 1940. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
^"Advertising". Wodonga and Towong Sentinel. 16 November 1951. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
^"Corryong, Victoria, at the Upper Murray River". www.murrayriver.com.au. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^"NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS - A Narrow Escape". Albury Banner and Wodonga Express. 30 June 1899. p. 23. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^"CORRYONG". Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times. 23 September 1907. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
^"ESCAPE FROM DROWNING". Argus. 24 September 1907. p. 6. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^"TRAGIC HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK". Chronicle. 8 January 1921. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
^"A Thrilling Experience". Corryong Courier. 1 March 1917. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^"CORRYONG". Albury Banner and Wodonga Express. 19 January 1923. p. 45. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^"SMUGGLING CATTLE". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. 20 February 1897. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^"Wodonga & Towong Sentinel". 17 May 1895. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
^"Greg Greg (1)". nswgovschoolhistory.cese.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^"Greg Greg (2)". nswgovschoolhistory.cese.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
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