Workhouse Offers Showcase for the Arts
New arts center in Lorton seeks to bring artists, viewing public closer together.
 WHEN THE overcrowded and run-down Lorton Reformatory closed in 2002, the debate began in the community about what to do with the land the prison complex sat on. The facilities at 9601 Ox Road in Lorton were already steeped in history. Originally established by Congress at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt in 1910, the Occoquan Workhouse in Lorton was designed to use its own prisoners to work the land. Over the decades, it became famous as the site where 123 members of the National Women’s Party were housed and mistreated after picketing Woodrow Wilson’s White House in 1917, as well as a housing site for Nike anti-aircraft missiles during the Cold War. Read more... |
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Welcome to Hummer Alley
Alexandria’s only unsolved murder of a police officer could prompt a memorial alley.
 IT WAS just after 1 a.m. on a steamy August night in 1928 when the voices began cutting through the humid summer air near an alley connecting Alfred and Columbus streets. According to one woman who was in her house reading at the time, the voices became progressively louder and louder. At first she tried to ignore the men. But their voices grew increasingly heated. Read more... |
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Fairfax Approves Foreclosure Plan
County expects to purchase 10 properties.
 THE FAIRFAX County Board of Supervisors moved forward with a plan to address the rising foreclosure rate Aug. 4.
The board voted 8-2, with Republican supervisors dissenting, to direct more resources toward county programs or non-profit organizations that assist homeowners struggling to keep their homes or buy new ones. Read more... |
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