An Old Womens' Prison

 After our Sunday brewery  tour we drove just down the street to another interesting tourist attraction in Hobart that we had seen from the bus the day before.

It is an old woman's prison that they called the Cascade Female Factory.  Above is one headquarters building that is still intact.  The prison ran in the early 1800's for about 40 years.  Prisoners were often sentenced to hard labor here.

There was an actual cookbook used in the kitchen.  We though this paragraph from the book was interesting.

Above Karen and Francis are looking at a large board with the names of children who were born and died here.  You see, the female prisoners were often loaned out into the town to clean houses, and do other work and came back pregnant.  Children were born here and many died and were buried here as well.

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