Darlington

There are remains of the penal village to which prisoners convicted of serious offences and particularly troublesome convicts were sent before the establishment of the penal colony of Port Arthur. Later this became a probation center. No further convicts were sent to Maria Island after the middle of the 19th C.

A few ruined buildings dating from around 1880 are relics of 19th C attempts to develop silk production and cement manufacture on the island.