Not ringing a bell? Not surprising. But what happened here on Nov. 14, 1917 — it was called Occoquan Workhouse then — changed U.S. history. Teddy Roosevelt could never have imagined that the ...

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 ...

A prison-turned-art space in Lorton, Virginia. Discover the fascinating history of the Occoquan Workhouse in Lorton, Virginia. Initially built in 1910 as a progressive era work camp to ...

Of those, 168 received jail sentences but not all in Occoquan Workhouse. And 106 women were sentenced with 72 serving in Occoquan. On July 4, 1917, some 11 additional women including Lucy Burns ...

The women were clubbed, beaten and tortured by the guards at the Occoquan Workhouse. The 33 suffragists from the National Woman’s Party had been arrested Nov. 10, 1917, while picketing outside ...

A majority of the 72 Suffragists at the Occoquan Workhouse in 1917 were officially jailed for “obstructing sidewalks,” read the historic log book of prisoners at the new Lucy Burns Museum that ...

The property on which the Workhouse stands was purchased from the federal government in 2002. The abandoned former Occoquan Workhouse, founded in 1910 as part of the District of Columbia’s ...

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 ...