Experts' Choice Award Cascades Female Factory Historic Site
3 expert reviews
Frommer's "Unless you are really into convict history, you may wish to save yourself for Port Arthur." Full review
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Make sure you time your visit to take a guided tour, or you won’t get much from your visit.
Frommer's "The "factory" prison, where women worked at spinning, washing, and sewing, operated from 1828 to 1856, housing up to 1,200 women and children...the institution continued as a jail until 1877. " Full review
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Make sure you time your visit to take a guided tour or you won't get much from your visit.
Lonely PlanetTop choice
"An important historic site (one in four convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land was a woman!), this was where Hobart’s female convicts were incarcerated." Full review
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