When was Cascades Female Factory built?
When was Cascades Female Factory built?
1828
Cascades Female Factory
| Security class | Former female factory, penal colony |
| Opened | 1828 |
| Closed | 1856 |
| Managed by | Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority |
| UNESCO World Heritage Site |
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What were female factories in Australia?
Australia in the 1820s During the 1820s, women convicts were confined in places termed ‘female factories’. These factories were both prisons and places of work. Employers could obtain a domestic servant there, and it was even possible for a free settler or pardoned convict to select a wife from among the inmates.
Where can I find information about the Cascades Female Factory?
Footsteps and Voices: A historical look into the Cascades Female Factory provides further information on the Cascades Female Factory. Copies can be purchased from the Female Factory Historic Site shop. When the Cascades Female Factory opened in 1828 there was one yard.
When were the first convicts sent to Cascades Female Factory?
The female convicts who arrived on the Harmony in January 1829 were the first to be sent directly from the ship to Cascades Female Factory for assignment.
What is the female factory historic site?
Cascades Female Factory Historic Site aims to foster a greater understanding and appreciation for the largely untold story of female convicts sent to Australia. The Coal Mines Historic Site is an outstanding example of the 19th-century European global strategy of using the forced labour of convicts.
When was the first female factory opened in Hobart?
Governor George Arthur purchased the site at Cascades for the female factory in 1827 from the owner of a failed distillery, TY Lowes. The factory’s first intake of female prisoners was in December 1828, from the prisoners at Hobart Town Female Factory .
