Eliza James Distance from the Cascade (Mrs Joseph Small) Collection: Tasmanian Brewery
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VISITOR CENTRE YARD 1 YARD 3 YARD 4 DEGRAVES STREET HOW TO GET THERE OPENING HOURS The Cascades Female Factory The Cascades Female Factory Historic Site is located at is open seven days and offers 16 Degraves Street, South a range of heritage tours and OTHER TASMANIAN Hobart, approximately 10 visitor experiences. WORLD HERITAGE minutes’ drive from Hobart’s Open seven days a week, CBD and only a short CONVICT SITES 9.30am–4pm. Eliza James distance from the Cascade (Mrs Joseph Small) Collection: Tasmanian Brewery. To gain an understanding Archive and Heritage MORE INFORMATION Office [PH30/1/699] By car – Plenty of on street of Tasmania’s role in the parking is available in Australian convict story, Degraves and Syme Streets. The Cascades Female Factory we recommend that you Historic Site is managed by visit the other sites that ELIZA JAMES On foot – Follow the walking the Port Arthur Historic Site form part of the Australian track along the Hobart Town Management Authority. Convict Sites World Heritage Eliza was a housemaid Rivulet. from Birmingham, For more information contact: property – the Port Arthur By bus – Metro bus numbers Historic Site, the Coal Mines transported in 1852, 446, 447 and 449 depart from FREE CALL 1800 139 478 Historic Site (Saltwater River aged 15. Assigned to stop N, Franklin Square, reservations@ on the Tasman Peninsula), five masters in three Hobart. Alight at stop 13, just femalefactory.org.au Woolmers Estate and months, she remained past St Johns Hospital, then www.femalefactory.org.au Brickendon (Longford) and with some of them just walk down Apsley Street. Cascades Female Factory Darlington Probation Station a few days. property. Historic Site, 16 Degraves (Maria Island). According to her /cascadesfemalefactory Street, South Hobart, record she was guilty Tasmania 7004 Australia of no wrong-doing – @femalefactory but was she? There is no further @cascadesfemalefactory record of Eliza’s career but the respectable looking matron who appears in this image, suggests she eventually made some kind of law-abiding life for herself. Ongoing support for Selected conservation conservation is provided projects have been by the Tasmanian supported by funding APRIL 2020 Government from the Australian Government RD CASCADE The Cascades Female Factory is Australia’s most significant historic HISTORY A WORLD HERITAGE SITE HERITAGE TOUR THE PROUD AND THE PUNISHED site associated with female convicts. From 1828 to 1856, the Today the Cascades Female Representing the female A comprehensive guided tour It is located in the shadow of Mount Cascades Female Factory Factory Historic Site experience, the Cascades of the Site, available seven The Proud and the Punished is a Wellington, a short distance from operated as an institution incorporates three of the Female Factory demonstrates days per week. one woman show that centers intended to reform female original five yards. It is how transportation was used around Sarah Mason, a petty Hobart’s city centre. Please contact the Cascades convicts, some as young as 11. one of the 11 convict sites to expand Britain’s spheres Female Factory Historic criminal who rails against the that together comprise the of influence, as well as to system of punishment and The Cascades Female Factory was More than 5000 female Site directly to book or for convicts are known to have Australian Convict Sites World punish and reform more information on these strives for redemption inside a self-contained, purpose-built spent time here. Women Heritage property. Collectively female convicts. activities. the prison walls. were incarcerated here as these sites represent an institution intended to reform female Allow 45 minutes Please call 1800 139 478 for punishment, to be reformed, exceptional example of the performance times. convicts. Inmates provided laundry and or while waiting to be assigned. forced migration of convicts and an extraordinary example Allow 45 minutes needlework services, offsetting some of With staff, women and of global developments babies, up to 1000 people the Colony’s penal costs. associated with punishment lived here at any one time. and reform. Thousands of women and children The Cascades Female Factory were imprisoned here, and many was originally established on the site of a failed never left. Visiting the site can be both distillery that was adapted emotional and rewarding, creating a and gradually expanded connection with the stories of female to comprise five adjacent, rectangular walled yards. convicts in Australia and their children Proceeds from admission After 1856, the site was used fees contribute to the – stories that are often tragic, but that for a variety of institutional ongoing conservation, also inspire hope and resilience. purposes before being sold interpretation and in 1904 and subdivided. development of the Port Arthur Historic Sites..