The Pakenham Girls’ Reformatory opened in 1897 on the former site of the Pakenham Boys’ Home, on Army Road, Pakenham. The first girls at the reformatory were transferred to Pakenham from the Brunswick Girls’ Home. In 1898 an article published in The Herald stated that there were 30 to 35 girls living at the reformatory. It described it as a remote property surrounded by bushland consisting of several cottages and buildings for dormitories and schoolrooms, orchards, beehives, and farmland with cows and poultry. It also reported that, despite the remote location, the reformatory had had an issue with trespassers. In 1900 the Pakenham reformatory moved to Riddell’s Creek.
A sub-reformatory was established at Heidelberg which then moved to Murrumbeena in 1899.
From
1897
To
1900
1897 - 1900
Pakenham Girls' Reformatory was situated at Army Road, Pakenham, Victoria (Building State unknown)
Subsequent