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Lucy Burns Museum, Lorton, VA

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Lucy Burns Museum

Museum on the former Workhouse prison campus in Lorton, focused on its institutional history and the suffragists held there.

9518 Workhouse Way, Lorton, VA 22079 · Lorton, VA

About Lucy Burns Museum

The Lucy Burns Museum sits within the Workhouse Arts Center campus near Lorton, on land that once housed a District of Columbia correctional facility. The site was planned in the Progressive Era as a prison without fences or cellblocks, meant to be humane and self-supporting. It operated from 1910 to 2001 and held suffragists including Lucy Burns and Dora Lewis. Their treatment in 1917 became an important episode in the campaign for the 19th Amendment. The museum presents this history, and visitors can also join guided cellblock tours when a docent is on site.

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