- 3,387 likes · 62 talking about this · 1,468 were here. Tragic and triumphant stories of Australia's convict women.
- Some rooms in the Macquarie Street Gaol filled in as a brief Hobart "Female Factory" in the mid-1820s. The Cascades Female Factory was reason worked in...
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- Around 12,500 women were transported to Tasmania, and at its height the Cascades Female Factory held 1200 women – more convicts than Port Arthur ever...
- Cascades Female Factory is located close to Hobart Linear Park on the island of Tasmania — once known as Van Diemen’s Land — in Australia.
- The Cascades Female Factory, a former Australian workhouse for female convicts in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, is located in Hobart, Tasmania.
- Most spent time in the grim, isolated and overcrowded Cascades Female Factory, located in a cold, swampy valley upstream from Hobart.
- The Cascades Female Factory operated in South Hobart from 1828 to 1856.
- It is located in South Hobart, only a short distance from the Hobart waterfront. The Cascades Female Factory was a self-contained, purpose-built institution...
- In a town rich with historical sites, the World Heritage-listed Cascades Female Factory is one of Hobart’s most moving.