- The Cascades Female Factory opened in 1828 to house female and children convicts who were now segregated from the male.
- The factory was established in 1828 and served as a female convict prison until 1856. It was one of the four main female factories in Tasmania and housed...
- Most spent time in the grim, isolated and overcrowded Cascades Female Factory, located in a cold, swampy valley upstream from Hobart.
- The Female Factory at Cascades opened in 1827. It was run by the Convict Department. As a place of secondary punishment for convict women...
- The Cascades Female Factory opened in 1828, taking over the premises of a failed distillery in the foothills of Mount Wellington.
- The Cascades Female Factory is one of 11 sites Australia-wide that comprise the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage Property.
- The Cascades Female Factory was one of 5 such prisons in Van Diemen’s Land during colonisation where females were sent.
- The Cascade Female Factory Ruins are located in the First Yard of the Cascades Female Factory Historic Site and are open for public inspection.
- Cascades Female Factory is part of the 11 Australian Convict Sites that include Port Arthur and collectively make up a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- 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.