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of convict women. The absence of
intact historic sites and fabric associated with convict women makes what
remains at Cascade Female Factory of national value.The place has become an
important catalyst for academic and community interest in the important role
convict women played in the development of the colonies. Cascades Female
Factory site is also valued as an important part of the wider story of women in
Australia.

Section 11: Appendices
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Jean Rice Architect | CONTEXT | GML Heritage

Commonwealth of Australia Gazette Special Gazette 15
No. S141, 1 August 2007

TASMANIA

Tasman Municipality

Coal Mines Historic Site:
About 350ha, 3km north of Saltwater River, comprising the following areas:

1.
2:

Coal Mines Historic Site State Reserve;

An area bounded by a line commencing at the intersection of the northern boundary of the
Coal Mines Historic Site with MGA easting 558200mE (approximate MGA point
558200mE 5241560mN), then via straight lines joining the following MGA points
consecutively; 558160mE 5241830mN, 558100mE 5242480mN, 557920mE 5242660mN,
557710mE 5242560mN, 557510mE 5242070mN, then southerly to the intersection of the
southern boundary of Lime Bay Nature Reserve with MGA easting 557470mE
(approximate MGA point 557470mE 5241700mN), then easterly via that boundary and its
alignment to the point of commencement;

A 340 metre seaward offset extending between the easterly prolongations of the northern
and southern boundaries of the Coal Mines Historic Site. The offset extends from the High
Water Mark.

Criterion Values

(a)

the place has The Coal Mines Historic Site contains the workings of a penal colliery that
outstanding heritage —_ operated from 1833-1848. It is associated with British convict transportation to
value to the nation Australia and at its peak accommodated up to five hundred convicts and over a
because of the place's hundred others including guards and their families. It is a relict industrial
a a. of landscape demonstrating the structure, spatial layout and operation of a penal
Ristralin' an ee probation station and its support industries (a lime kiln, a stone quarry and
cultural history. tanning pits), as well asa colliery where the most refractory convicts were put
to hard labour. Probation stations operated on the principle that punishment
and reform could be achieved by hard labour, religious instructions and
education, with convicts strictly classified according to the severity of their
offences.

The place is an outstanding representation of the economic value of convict
labour as evidenced in the remains of the colliery, wharves and jetties, and the
ruins of the commissariat store.

It is an outstanding representation of evolving convict management, clearly
demonstrating the key features and design of a probation station for refractory
convicts.

The operation of the probation station and the hierarchy of the management is