• The World Heritage-listed Cascades Female Factory tells the story of the displacement, mistreatment and forced migration of convict women and girls...
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  • Cascades Female Factory Historic Site, South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 3,381 likes · 63 talking about this · 1,461 were here. Tragic and triumphant...
  • The Cascades Female Factory is the only remaining female factory with extant remains which give a sense of what female factories were like.
  • A look at the bleak reconstructed Yard 4 in Hobart's convict female prison, now a World Heritage Site. 25,000 women and their nursing babies were held in inh...
  • The Cascades Female Factory is a must for anyone intrigued with this deep and dark aspect of Australia’s history.
  • Footsteps and Voices: A historical look into the Cascades Female Factory provides further information on the Cascades Female Factory.
  • The Cascades Female Factory is one of 11 sites Australia-wide that comprise the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage Property.
  • Originally the site of a failed distillery, the Cascades Female Factory opened in 1828 and held up to 1000 people at a time, though it was designed for just 100.
  • Most spent time in the grim, isolated and overcrowded Cascades Female Factory, located in a cold, swampy valley upstream from Hobart.