Ross, Campbell Town and the midlands

After Port Arthur we went through Richmond and ended up staying at a small town called Ross. Ross is the site of a "female factory" which was a convict women's prison from the 1800s. Thankfully this one was only in operation for about six years. People in those times did it very hard.

We stayed in an old sunday school building in Ross. It was well kept and still had a little pew for the children. The organ was also intact and there were real tombstones in the back yard. When I went to sleep that night I was nervously listening to every creak and sound but still no ghosts.

We sent a care parcel to Jessica from the quaint old post office in Ross. Just outside Ross is a famous bridge built by a couple of convict stonemasons who were emancipated after the bridge was finished. It is a spectactular bridge and is still used for traffic.

In Campbell town there is a similar bridge but it is made of just red brick. It was built in the 1800s and has never had any major repairs even though the main highway between Hobart and Launceston runs over it and hundreds of thousands of cars / trucks go over it every year. The stone masons of their day certainly knew what they were doing.

Now we are off to the east coast and Launceston for the weekend.