Ross Female Factory Site's historic town of Ross, in central Tasmania, is an ancient building where hundreds of female criminals served and worked between 1848 and 1854. It is one of 11 sites at (Australian Convict Sites), an Australian convict exile site, assessed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
The Ross women's factory, once one of four women workers' factories in Tasmania, was used as a probation station for women prisoners and their babies between 1847 and 1854. The building was converted from a chain-locked prisoner station and was expanded with churches and restaurants. Hospitals, nurseries, single rooms, dormitories and outer yards. Here prisoners learn to sew, clean, cook, wash clothes and take care of their babies.
The renovated and renovated Ross women's plant is now open to the public and is Australia's most archeologically preserved female prisoner site.
