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Lorton is located in southern Fairfax County at (38.704915, −77.233573 It is bordered to the west by Laurel Hill, to the north by Newington, to the east by Fort Belvoir, to the southeast by Mason Neck, and to the southwest by Woodbridge in Prince William County.
The last prisoners were removed from Lorton Reformatory late in 2001. [12] As a result of the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997, felons from the District of Columbia began going to Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities. [citation needed] On July 15, 2002, the property was sold to Fairfax County.
Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia.With a population of 1,150,309 as of the 2020 census, [1] it is the most populous county in Virginia, the most populous jurisdiction in the Washington metropolitan area, and the most populous location in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.
From Fairfax County: Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, only British noble resident in colonial Virginia 25,144: 6 sq mi (16 km 2) Falls Church: 610: N/A: 1948: From Fairfax County: The Falls Church: 14,685: 2.1 sq mi (5 km 2) Franklin: 620: N/A: 1961: From Southampton County: Benjamin Franklin, publisher, scholar, orator, and U.S ...
Taft Archeological Site No. 029-5411 is a historic archaeological site located at Lorton, Fairfax County, Virginia.The site includes a multi-component, stratified, upland, prehistoric and possibly proto-historic (), American Indian camp covering a 50x80-meter area and dating to between ca. 2000 B.C. (based on Savannah River point) and A.D. 1560.
Pohick Church, previously known as Pohick Episcopal Church, is an Episcopal church in the community of Lorton in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.Often called the "Mother Church of Northern Virginia," [3] [4] [5] the church is notable for its association with important figures in early Virginian history such as George Washington and George Mason, both of whom served on its vestry.
The River View at Occoquan Regional Park in Lorton opened in 2018, part of the Jean R. Packard Center. The center also features Brickmakers Cafe. Occoquan Regional Park is a regional park along a tributary of the Potomac River, located in Lorton in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia, USA.
Laurel Hill is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.The population at the 2020 census was 8,307. [1] Formerly part of the Lorton CDP, it comprises most of what was formerly the Lorton Reformatory grounds, which were purchased by Fairfax County in 2002 following the prison's closing and redeveloped as a new suburban community.