Visitors will descend upon Occoquan for one of its major events of the year, the annual Riverfest & Craft Show. The event ...

Discover the fascinating history of the Occoquan Workhouse in Lorton, Virginia. Initially built in 1910 as a progressive era work camp to rehabilitate inmates through hard labor and agriculture ...

There’s a lovely arts center and a nice theater in the old Occoquan Workhouse. Some of the Lorton Reformatory’s old dormitories have been turned into swanky apartments. Nearby, a Lidl occupies part of ...

Kate Stafford was one of many suffragists arrested while picketing the White House who suffered unspeakable torture through the "Night of Terror" at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia. Kate Chapman ...

Just under 90 years ago, a group of women fighting for the right to vote were imprisoned in the Occoquan Workhouse in Lorton for protesting in front of the White House. Now, the Kathy Harty Gray ...

She was among the women who were arrested and sent to the Occoquan Workhouse, where they were abused. “I’ve spoken to and seen so many women who seem so moved by this,” Cruz said of the show.

Not far down the road from where suffragists were imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse for picketing at the White House for the right to vote, members of the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial ...

On Nov. 10, around 30 sentinels protesting the force-feeding of jailed suffragists were taken to the Occoquan Workhouse. On Nov. 14, the superintendent of the workhouse ordered guards to attack them.

In 1917, the space was known as the Occoquan Workhouse. The story starts across the Potomac River in front of the White House. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns led the women of the National Woman ...

Few would guess behind these achievements and milestones was a former gang leader who served jail time in the Worcester House of Correction and federal time in the Washington D.C. and Occoquan ...

The Lorton corrections facility has a rich and surprising history. Originally a men’s prison called the Occoquan Workhouse, it was built in 1910 in the spirit of the progressive reform movement ...