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The Cascades Female Factory, a former Australian workhouse for female convicts in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, is located in Hobart, Tasmania.Operational between 1828 and 1856, the factory is now one of the 11 sites that collectively compose the Australian Convict Sites, listed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO.
The complex consists of a church, built between 1831 and 1833 over solitary confinement cells. The church was then converted to a prison chapel and law courts in the late 1850s. Today this complex is known as the Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site. [6] The scaffold for hanging was restored in the 1980s, and uses the original fixtures. [7]
Today, the Cascades Female Factory remains as a historic site for tourists to explore the heritage of Hobart’s female convict landscape. By 1851, there was a sum of approximately 12,000 convict women that had been transported to the Van Diemen’s Land colony. [29]
Australian Convict Sites is a World Heritage property consisting of 11 remnant penal sites originally built within the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries on fertile Australian coastal strips at Sydney, Tasmania, Norfolk Island, and Fremantle; now representing "...the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers ...
1874: Eclipse, schooner, near Hobart, 2 lives lost. 1875: Comet was a barque lost between New Zealand and Hobart; 13 lives lost. 1883: Beryl cutter, capsized off Tamar Heads, 2 lives lost. 1884: Farningham Composite barque, collided with iron barque Vanguard, and the order was given to abandon ship.
Belconnen Remand Centre. A new prison was opened on 11 September 2008 at Hume, called the Alexander Maconochie Centre, named after Alexander Maconochie.The centre is designed as a multi role facility to replace the Belconnen Remand Centre and provide detention facilities so that prisoners who are currently held in New South Wales facilities may be held locally.
He's expected to be sentenced to 10-15 years in prison. Hobart man to be sentenced June 1 for three of the eight fires he'd been charged with setting. He's expected to be sentenced to 10-15 years ...
The remains of the stone penitentiary building on Sarah Island at the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station. The West Coast of Tasmania has a significant convict heritage. The use of the west coast as an outpost to house convicts in isolated penal settlements occurred in the eras 1822–33, and 1846–47.