Unknown artist, Parramatta, New South Wales, c. 1872
[The original Parramatta female factory building which became the Parramatta lunatic asylum]
Photograph
Courtesy of the Society of Australian Genealogists
In the colony of New South Wales, there were two factories in Parramatta, two in Moreton Bay, and one each in Newcastle, Bathurst and Port Macquarie. In the Colony of Van Diemen’s land, factories existed in Hobart Town, Cascade, Launceston, Ross and Georgetown.