- One of the most compelling aspects of visiting the Cascades Female Factory is the opportunity to hear the personal stories of the convicts.
- Cascades Female Factory is located close to Hobart Linear Park on the island of Tasmania — once known as Van Diemen’s Land — in Australia.
- Scope and content. Photograph of the Cascades' Female Factory looking toward Mt Wellington with the Cascade Brewery in the distance.
- 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 is one of 11 sites Australia-wide that comprise the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage Property.
- The Cascades Female Factory opened in 1828, taking over the premises of a failed distillery in the foothills of Mount Wellington.
- 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.
- The Cascades Female Factory was one of 5 such prisons in Van Diemen’s Land during colonisation where females were sent.
- The Cascades Female Factory, part of the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage Property, plays an important part in the history of female convicts in...
- The World Heritage Listed Cascades Female Factory site just south of Hobart is the most significant site we have today relating to female convicts in Australia.