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Location
  
Phone
  
+61 1800 139 478

Closed
  
1856

Opened
  
1828

Cascades Female Factory

Security class
  
Former female factory, penal colony

Managed by
  
Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority

Website
  
www.femalefactory.org.au

Address
  
16 Degraves St, South Hobart TAS 7004, Australia

Hours
  
Open today · 9:30AM–4PMMonday9:30AM–4PMTuesday9:30AM–4PMWednesday9:30AM–4PMThursday9:30AM–4PMFriday9:30AM–4PMSaturday9:30AM–4PMSunday9:30AM–4PM

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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. Operational between 1828 and 1856, the factory is now one of the 11 sites that collectively comprise the Australian Convict Sites, listed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO.

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Collectively the Australian Convict Sites represent an exceptional example of the forced migration of convicts and an extraordinary example of global developments associated with punishment and reform. Representing the female experience, the Cascades Female Factory demonstrates how penal transportation was used to expand Britain's spheres of influence, as well as to punish and reform female convicts.

Now operational as a museum and tourist attraction, the site is managed by the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority.

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History

Some rooms in the Macquarie Street Gaol served as a temporary Hobart "Female Factory" in the mid-1820s. The Cascades Female Factory was purpose-built in 1828 and operated as a convict facility until 1856. It was intended to remove women convicts from the negative influences and temptations of Hobart, and also to protect society from what was seen as their immorality and corrupting influence. The Factory was located, however, in an area of damp swamp land, and with overcrowding, poor sanitation and inadequate food and clothes, there was a high rate of disease and mortality among its inmates.

The Cascades Female Factory is the only remaining female factory with extant remains which give a sense of what female factories were like. It is included on the Australian National Heritage List. It was inscribed on the World Heritage list in July 2010, along with ten other Australian convict sites.

Today the Cascades Female Factory Historic Site consists of three of the original five yards. It is open every day (except Christmas) and offers a range of tours.

References

Cascades Female Factory Wikipedia


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