[2] It is home to a function centre, as well as operating tourism related ventures including guided tours and a retail outlet.[3] The Cascade estate was originally a saw milling operation, run by a partnership called Macintosh and Degraves Sawmills.[7] Macintosh was a retired East India Company Officer who emigrated from England on his ship Hope in 1824 with his business partner Peter Degraves (1778–1852).[10][6] Macintosh moved to his farm on the banks for the Derwent River where he pursued his interests in viticulture and Merino sheep.[12] The image adopted for its label in 1987, H. C. Richter's nineteenth-century illustration of the now extinct Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), is from Gould's The Mammals of Australia.
Peter Degraves
Featured on the label, the iconic illustration of the Tasmanian Tiger
Thylacinus cynocephalus
, J.Gould and H.C. Richter, in
Mammals of Australia
, vol.I, 1841.