#lorton

[t13shoots]

[istandonsnowpiles]

Service Area

Captured in IR Chrome

[aryburn-trains]

CSX1418 by Stanley Short Via Flickr: L to R - SB Amtk. P053 with P42s No's 200 and 168, NB VRE D/H with GP39-2C No. V07, and SB CSX Q411 with SD40-2s No's. 8855 and 8334, Lorton, VA, 1/31/07.

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

Original July 1933 caption: "RIOT THREATENED AT 'COUNTRY CLUB' INSTITUTION. Forty Washington DC police with machine guns and tear gas have reinforced the normal guard at the District of Columbia Reformatory at Lorton, Va., where 1100 inmates threatened to set fire to the unwalled and unbarred 'Country Club' institution. Fire apparatus has been stationed nearby and Virginia National Guard units prepared for quick mobilization, if necessary. Trouble began when prisoners complained that the food was poor and began to riot in the dining room. This photo shows the dining room, scene of the riot."

[eopederson]

Pohick Church, Fairfax County, Virginia, 1972.

The closest church to Mt. Vernon, Washington was a frequent attendee of services, and in the interior one finds the Washington family pew.

A photograph taken today would show little change.

[insideoutlorton]

Join us August 19 at 7pm at the Miracle Theatre, 535 8th St, SE, DC. So unbelievably thrilled to be a part of the DC Black Film Festival. 

@thebabelgraphic

[thebabelgraphic]

If you are in the DC Metro area on Saturday, August 19th, please come to a screening of a film that I edited called, "In Lorton's Darkroom" at the DC Black Film Festival - The Miracle Theater 535 8th Street, SE, Washington, DC. This documentary follows the journey of a group of incarcerated individuals at the notorious Lorton Prison, who used photography to transform their lives.

[redwolf518]

Cranford Cemetery by Russell Petcoff Via Flickr: Old cemetery next to the Cranford United Methodist Church in Lorton, Virginia.