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The Cascades The Historic Site is located at is open seven days and offers 16 Degraves Street, South a range of heritage tours and OTHER TASMANIAN , 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 BOOKINGS AND Office [PH30/1/699] By car – Plenty of on street of ’s role in the parking is available in MORE INFORMATION Australian convict story, we Degraves and Syme Streets. recommend that you visit the The Cascades Female Factory other sites that form part of On foot – Follow the walking ELIZA JAMES Historic Site is managed by the track along the Hobart Town the Port Arthur Historic Site World Heritage property – Eliza was a housemaid Rivulet. Management Authority. the Port Arthur Historic Site, from Birmingham, By bus – Metro bus numbers in 1852, 16 Degraves Street, South the 446, 447 and 449 depart from aged 15. Assigned to Hobart, Tasmania 7004 (Saltwater River), Woolmers stop N, Franklin Square, five masters in three Estate and Brickendon Hobart. Alight at stop 13, just (Longford) and Darlington months, she remained past St Johns Hospital, then Tel: +61 3 6233 6656 Probation Station (Maria with some of them just walk down Apsley Street. FREE CALL – 1800 139 478 Island). a few days. [email protected] According to her /cascadesfemalefactory www.femalefactory.org.au record she was guilty of no wrongdoing @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 MAR 2018 Government from the Australian Government RD CASCADE

The Cascades Female Factory is Australia’s most significant historic site associated with female convicts. It is located in the shadow of kunanyi / Mount Wellington, a short distance from Hobart’s city centre. The Cascades Female Factory was HISTORY With staff, women and A WORLD Representing the female HERITAGE TOUR HER STORY a self-contained, purpose-built babies, up to 1000 people HERITAGE SITE experience, the Cascades lived here at any one time. Female Factory demonstrates institution intended to reform female From 1828 to 1856, the A comprehensive guided tour Part history lesson, part how transportation was used Cascades Female Factory The Cascades Female Factory of the Site is available seven roaming theatre show, Her convicts. Inmates provided laundry and Today the Cascades Female to expand Britain’s spheres operated as an institution was originally established days a week. Story is a powerful depiction Factory Historic Site of influence, as well as to needlework services, offsetting some of intended to reform female on the site of a failed of the harsh life within Yard incorporates three of the punish and reform female Please contact the Cascades the Colony’s penal costs. convicts, some as young as 11. distillery that was adapted One of the Female Factory original five yards. It is convicts. Female Factory Historic More than 5000 female and gradually expanded one of the 11 convict sites Site directly to book or for in 1833. Performed by two Thousands of women and children were convicts are known to have to comprise five adjacent, that together comprise the more information on these actors, one portraying the imprisoned here, and many never left. spent time here. Women rectangular walled yards. Australian Convict Sites World activities. woman whose story is being were incarcerated here as After 1856, the site was used Heritage property. Collectively told, and the other playing Allow 45 minutes Visiting the site can be both emotional punishment, to be reformed, for a variety of institutional these sites represent an the parts of an overseer and or while waiting to be purposes before being sold exceptional example of the a doctor, Her Story helps and rewarding, creating a connection assigned. in 1904 and subdivided. forced migration of convicts visitors to fully comprehend with the stories of female convicts in and an extraordinary example the significance of the Site Australia and their children – stories of global developments and what happened here. associated with punishment Proceeds from admission Please call 1800 139 478 for that are often tragic, but that also inspire and reform. fees contribute to the performance times. hope and resilience. ongoing conservation, Allow 45 minutes interpretation and development of our Sites.