The Cascades Female Factory Audio Experience

Cascades Female Factory Historic Site bears witness to the displacement, oppression and control of women in lutruwita / Tasmania. We honour their pain and loss, their courage and perseverance. 

If at Cascades Female Factory, we recommend you listen to this chapter by the 'From the Shadows' statue in Yard Three (stop 20).

After months at sea, women convicts entered through these gates to begin their sentence at the Female Factory. 
If at Cascades Female Factory, we recommend you listen to this chapter at the original entrance to the Factory (stop 4).

Convict women were set to work in homes and farms as part of the Assignment System. 
If at Cascades Female Factory, we recommend you listen to this chapter by the First Class Yard (stop 5).

With convict transportation to Van Diemen’s Land coming to an end, there was no longer any need for this establishment. So what happened next?
If at Cascades Female Factory, we recommend you listen to this chapter as you wander back through to Yard 3 (stop 19).

Convict women who gave birth here, in the Yard Four factory nursery, were subjected to new, harsh regulations. 
Content warning: This chapter discusses infant mortality. 

If at Cascades Female Factory, we recommend you listen to this chapter by the wall of Baby Names, a memorial to the infants born at the Factory, in Yard 4 (stop 16). This memorial was researched and developed by tour guide, Shelly Kube.