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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVP_women-suffrage-prisoners-at-occoquan-workhouse_Lorton-VA.html
Adjacent to this park a group of women was imprisoned in 1917 for demanding the right to vote. The road to Occoquan Workhouse had started in 1848.
In July 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, officially opening the American women's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPR_lorton-nike-missile-site_Lorton-VA.html
Located north of here was one of three Nike anti-aircraft missile complexes in Fairfax County operated by the U.S. Army and the Army National Guard between 1954 and 1974. The sites were established during the Cold War to defend Washington from Sov…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOW_colchester_Lorton-VA.html
Colchester, founded in 1753 at the location of a ferry crossing, was the second town established in Fairfax County. Located on the main post road from Boston to Charleston, and at the end of the Ox Road leading west to the Blue Ridge, the town pro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOM_gunston-hall_Lorton-VA.html
Gunston Hall, four miles to the east, is one of the most noted colonial places in Virginia. The land was patented in 1651 by Richard Turney, who was hanged for taking part in Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. In 1696 the second George Mason acquired it. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOB_lewis-chapel-cranford-memorial-methodist-church_Lorton-VA.html
This church is a combination of several structures built on the site of the first Pohick Church (1730-1774), making this one of the earliest sites of a religious institution in Fairfax County. Lewis Chapel, named after a Methodist circuit rider, w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO1_indian-attack_Lorton-VA.html
To the east, on Dogue Neck, "Certain Unknown Indians" attacked the house of Thomas Barton about 3:00 P.M. on Sunday, 16 June 1700, killing eight persons with "arrowes & Wooden Tommahawkes." The neighboring Piscataway Indians denied making the atta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNQ_wagener_Lorton-VA.html
The remains from 29 graves were brought here from the Wagener family cemetery at Stisted, their plantation on the Occoquan River near Colchester. The Second Peter Wagener (1717-1774), Clerk of the Fairfax County Court (1752-1772), served as a Vest…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNK_the-herris-stone_Lorton-VA.html
This stone's original inscription was Heare lyes bodey of Livt Willeame Herris who died May 16 : 1698 : aged : 065 years : By birth a Britaire : a good soldier a good husbnd & kinde : neighbour. Mr. Herris (Harris) was the father of Anne Harris, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN0_old-telegraph-line_Lorton-VA.html
One of the first telegraph lines in the world, a part of the Washington-New Orleans Telegraph Company, was built from Washington to Petersburg in 1847. From this the road took its name.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIT_lorton-station_Lorton-VA.html
The settlement of Lorton was named by Joseph Plaskett, who immigrated to Virginia from his home north of England in the scenic Lorton Valley. Plaskett became the first Lorton postmaster in 1875 and generations of Plasketts followed in his footstep…