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The miliTary diSTriCT The welfare area SmiTh o’Brien’S CoTTaGe (8) The SeparaTe priSon (13) Comprising: Guard Tower (4), Comprising: The Hospital (9), This cottage housed one of Port Arthur’s The Separate Prison was designed to Senior Military Officer’s Quarters (6), Paupers’ Depot (11), the Asylum (12) most famous political prisoners – Irish deliver a new method of punishment, of Officers’ Quarters (7) ConviCT adminiSTraTion Protestant Parliamentarian, William reforming the convicts through isolation In the Hospital convicts were commonly Smith O’Brien (right). Transported for and contemplation. Convicts were For most of the convict period, the treated for numerous conditions Comprising: Commandant’s House (5), life, he was sent to Port Arthur after an locked for 23 hours each day in single Senior Military Officer’s Quarters was Commandant including respiratory or rheumatic Law Courts (3) Charles O’Hara Booth attempted escape from Maria Island. cells. Here they ate, slept and worked, the home of the Military Officer in ailments contracted from working by Thomas Lemprière with just one hour a day allowed for charge of the soldiers at Port Arthur. The The Commandant was Port Arthur’s Collection: Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery outdoors and sleeping in cold cells ConviCT waTer SUPPLY Trail (10) exercise, alone, in a high-walled yard. soldiers of Port Arthur were responsible most senior official. A residence befitting and wet clothing. By the early 1860s, A major conservation program for the for security and for pursuing and this rank and position was erected on many convicts were housed and treated This trail tells the story of an ambitious Separate Prison began in 2007. capturing escaped convicts. A small high ground in 1833 and housed five in the Paupers’ Depot or the Asylum, project that aimed to make the convict Carnarvon TownShip number of soldiers were accompanied of Port Arthur’s ten Commandants. according to new ideas that included settlement self-sufficient in the production by their wives who washed, sewed and The Law Courts introduced convicts creating a calm environment. The of flour. A 600 metre, self-guided trail Comprising: Police Station (2) provided basic nursing care for the men to Port Arthur’s regime of ‘ceaseless Asylum now includes a Museum, reveals the surviving artefacts from this Civil offiCerS’ row, Soldiers’ Memorial Avenue (14), in their husband’s company. Children vigilance’, discipline and punishment Convict Study Centre and the convict-built hydro-engineering project. GovernmenT CoTTaGe and Trentham (15), St David’s Church (24) of the soldiers and lower ranking designed ‘for grinding rogues into Museum Coffee Shop. The walk takes about 30 minutes. GovernmenT GardenS settlement officials and free staff were honest men’. Several buildings and areas remain educated together in the Port Arthur Historic Site Comprising: Visiting Magistrate’s House from the post convict period. adjoining Free School. (16), Roman Catholic Chaplain’s House (17), Trentham was lived in by members Junior Medical Officer’s House (18), of the Trenham family up to 1920. CARNARVON BAY Accountant’s House (19), Parsonage (20), The house and garden have been Government Cottage (22), Government restored and are open to the 10 12 Gardens (23) public. The Soldiers’ Memorial 8 Museum & Study Centre Avenue was planted to honour 6 7 Laundry Civil Officers’ Row separated senior 13 the 15 men from the Carnarvon Farm Overseer’s officers and their families from the and Oakwood districts who lost poinT puer BoyS’ priSon (32) 4 Cottage 11 convict population and provided them their lives serving in the First 5 9 with housing suited to their status. World War. The Police Station was Point Puer operated from 1834 to 1849 32 Carnarvon Bay Track 3 14 The Government Gardens offered a home to the township’s policemen and was the first purpose-built juvenile quiet and beautiful space, free from from 1936 to 1972. The building is reformatory in the British Empire. The iSle of The dead (31) 2 the unwanted presence of the convicts. open to the public and has an Juvenile offenders were separated from Archaeology 16 Archaeology display. St David’s the older convicts to protect them from Between 1833 and 1877 around 1100 Display Church was built after years of criminal influence. Most of the boys people were buried at the settlement’s 1 TRAMWAY STREET 17 31 1 The Penitentiary (1857) Anglican Church services in the were aged between 14 and 17, with the cemetery. The Isle of the Dead is the 15 M A S O N C O V E 2 Police Station (1936) Town Hall (Asylum). Services are youngest just 9 years old. Point Puer final resting place for military and civil CHAMP STREET 18 3 Law Courts (1846) held regularly and visitors are was renowned for its regime of stern officers, their wives and children, and welcome. discipline and harsh punishment, but convicts. The most common causes of 4 Guard Tower (1835) 5 Commandant’s House (1833–56) all the boys received an education death among convicts were industrial 26 while some were given the opportunity accidents, and respiratory disease. 19 6 Senior Military Officer’s Quarters (1833) TARLETON STREET Information 25 Education Centre of trade training. Tours operate daily. Tours to the Isle operate daily. 24 7 Officers’ Quarters (1844) 20 Toilets 8 Smith O’Brien’s Cottage (1840s) memorial Garden (25) Canadian Cottage 9 Hospital (1842) Jetty Cottage Scorpion Rock Disabled Toilets Lookout On Sunday 28 April 1996, a tragic The doCkyard 23 10 Convict Water Supply Trail (1842) 21 Food chapter was added to Port Arthur’s To Dockyard 11 Paupers’ Depot (1864) history when a gunman took the lives of Comprising: Slipway & Sculpture (27), Children’s Play Area Visitor Centre 22 12 The Asylum (1868) First Aid Limekiln (28) Clerk of Works’ House (29), 35 people and physically wounded Government 13 The Separate Prison (1849) 19 others in and around the Port Arthur Shipwright’s House (30), Gardens Telephone C A R P A R K 14 Soldiers’ Memorial Avenue (1918) Historic Site. Among them were J During its 15 years of operation, Port E 15 Trentham (1898-1904) members of staff from the Historic T Post Box Arthur’s Dockyard produced 16 large 27 T Y 16 Visiting Magistrate’s House (1847) Site. The Memorial Garden incorporates decked vessels and around 150 small R Eftpos the shell of the Broad Arrow Café, Pat Jones’ O 17 Roman Catholic Chaplain’s House (1843) open boats. At its peak, more than 70 Cottage A where 20 people were killed during D 18 Junior Medical Officer’s House (1848) men worked here. The precinct included 28 29 30 CHURCH STREET Rubbish Bins the massacre, and has been created as a blacksmith’s workshop, two sawpits, Stewarts Bay Track Site Entry To Arthur Highway N 19 Accountant’s House (1842) a place of remembrance and reflection. BBQ two steamers for bending timber, a 20 Parsonage (1842) rigging shed and several other work- The peniTenTiary (1) The ChurCh (21) 21 The Church (1837) Designated Smoking Area shops. The lime produced from the 22 Government Cottage (1853) In the early days of the penal settlement, The Penitentiary’s two lower floors The Church represents the important House Museums Limekiln was an essential ingredient 23 Government Gardens (1846) for building construction at Port Arthur. convicts were housed in rough timber contained 136 cells for ‘prisoners of role of religion in convict reform at 24 St David’s Church (1927) A 25-metre-long sculpture sits in one huts. These were located in the area bad character’. The top floor provided Port Arthur. Up to 1100 people attended of the Dockyard’s two slips, evoking next to the Police Station. Later, as space for 480 better behaved convicts compulsory services here each Sunday. 25 Memorial Garden the scale of the ships that were made convict numbers increased, the flour to sleep in bunks. Much of the decorative stonework and 26 Ferry Dock mill and granary was converted into a joinery in the church was crafted by here. The sounds of long-vanished A very large industrial area near the 27 Dockyard Slipway (1834-48) & Sculpture four-storey Penitentiary, due to its boys from the Point Puer Boys’ Prison. industry – the blacksmith’s shop, sawpit, Penitentiary included workshops 28 Limekiln (1854) World Heritage Site failure to supply adequate flour for the a noTe on daTeS the clattering of hammers, voices – where prisoners worked and were 29 Shipwright’s House (1834) Buildings and gardens at Port Arthur can be heard as you explore the area. settlement. trained in a range of skills including 30 Clerk of Works’ House (1848) were constantly being adapted and carpentry, shoemaking, wood turning 31 The Isle of the Dead (1833) changed. To avoid long lists of dates, and blacksmithing. There is no longer the date given for each place usually 32 Point Puer Boys’ Prison (1834) any evidence visible above the surface. represents the year when it was first used. welCome To The porT arThur hiSToriC SiTe porT arThur – a Brief history SiTe enTry where To eaT and Shop Convict reSearCh & daTaBaSe ConTaCT uS The Port Arthur Historic Site is a place of The Pydairrerme people were the By 1840 more than 2000 convicts, Your day entry pass is valid for two Open daily, the Gift Shop offers an A project is underway at the Site to Port Arthur Historic Site traditional owners of the land that is soldiers and civil staff lived at Port consecutive days and includes access to: extensive range of gifts, books and identify every convict and free person Management Authority national and international significance – now known as Port Arthur.