ROSS

MONDAY 26 - TUESDAY 27.12.2011: Went on our historic walk through Ross and thoroughly enjoyed it.

THE ROSS BRIDGE (1836)
TO HOBART TOWN LXIX MILES



UNITING CHURCH
(CIRCA 1885)

  

ORIGINAL STABLES FOR MILITARY
GARRISON HORSES

ROSS FEMALE FACTORY

Visited Ross Female Factory. In 1833 a handful of thatched huts accommodated convict stonemasons building the Ross Bridge. By the early 1840s a large punishment station had sprouted with sufficient space for some 300 chained road gang convicts and the male probation prisoners that followed them. Between 1847-48 the buildings were adapted especially for use at the Ross Female Factory, which operated as a convict hiring depot, nursery, probation and punishment station. Over the next seven years hundreds of female felons served time behind the conspicuous high security fence until the establishment's closure in 1855.

TOWN HALL 1891

POST OFFICE 1889



 





TWAS QUITE A WALK TO
THE ORIGINAL BURIAL GROUND!



LUNCH AT THE MAN OF ROSS HOTEL