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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13KK_shiloh-baptist-church_Lorton-VA.html
According to tradition, African Americans from the Mason Neck area and others who had recently moved to Virginia from Maryland formed a religious congregation in 1869. They built a log church on the north side of Gunston Road in 1878 where their c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK7O_occoquan-workhouse_Lorton-VA.html
This marker honors the suffragists imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse in 1917 and 1918, for picketing the White House to gain support for an amendment to the Constitution to give women the right to vote. The women were members of the National Wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMESM_evolution-of-a-landscape-plantation-prison-park_Lorton-VA.html
Evolution of a Landscape - Plantation, Prison, ParkIt may be difficult to imagine all of the events, large and small, that took place on the surrounding landscape, but Laurel Hill Park has been influenced by thousands of years of human history. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA01_mount-air-historic-site_Lorton-VA.html
Keeping it in the FamilyThe McCarty's who built Mount Air, were an important Virginia family. Dennis McCarty patented the land where you stand in 1727. Dennis McCarty served as Sheriff, Justice of the Peace, a vestryman from Truro Parish and was a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8X3_pohick-church_Lorton-VA.html
This building was begun in 1769 and completed by 1774, succeeding an earlier church two miles to the south. It was the Lower Church of Truro Parish, established in 1732, the parish of Mount Vernon and Gunston Hall. George William Fairfax, George W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8X2_mount-air_Lorton-VA.html
The original 522~acre plantation was granted to Dennis McCarty in 1727 and passed through the hands of only three additional families: the Chichesters, Landstreets and Kernans. Mount Air represents in microcosm a history of Fairfax county~~the ris…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5NE_joseph-w-jordan_Lorton-VA.html
Dedicatedto theMemory OfLorton Little Leaguer Joseph W. Jordan* 1999 All Star *
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5N8_noman-monroe-cole-jr_Lorton-VA.html
An engineer who believed science must serve people; a citizen who believed one person could make a difference, and did. The Potomac River in the 1960's was one of the most polluted waterways in the country. The major source of Potomac River pol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3LS_newington_Lorton-VA.html
Newington was the name given to the second Truro Parish Glebe House completed in 1760 after it became the private residence of Richard and Sarah McCarty Chichester after 1767. The William Nevitt family acquired the house and 1000 acre tract in 182…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVS_the-beehive-brick-kiln_Lorton-VA.html
From the turn of the century until the late 1960's nine kilns on this site were operated by inmates of the Lorton correctional facility. The bricks stacked inside this kiln are ready to be baked. For 4 to 5 days coal fires in each of the hearth…
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