Welcome to Ross
Our tranquil village offers an amazing opportunity for visitors to experience the beauty and drama of Tasmania's colonial history.
Uniquely, you can walk amongst buildings erected in Australia's earliest years or walk across the sandstone carved bridge finished in 1836.
Centrally located, Ross is an ideal base for your next Tasmanian holiday.
| Ross Female Factory Site |
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The site will undergo some major changes within the next 12 months as the result of a grant to update the interpretation. Including the new fence completed in December 2008. |
Origionally built to house the male convicts working on the Ross Bridge and the road between Hobart and Launceston. From 1848 to 1854 it operated as the Ross Female Factory, housing female convicts and their babies. The 'factory' accomodated two classes of convicts. The crime class these women were kept on the site and worked in either the kitchen, laundry or garden. The hiring class were the better behaved women and they would be 'hired out' to the surrounding farms and houses as domestic servants. Today the site has the remains of the assistant superintendant's and overseer's cottages which includes a scale model of what the site used to look like as well as other interpretive displays. | < Prev | Next > |
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