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Funeral Homes in Lorton, VA
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Below you fill find all funeral homes and cemeteries in or near Lorton.
Suburbs of Lorton: Alexandria, Arlington, Dept HS, Fairfax, Falls Church, Herndon, Mason Neck, Mc Lean, McLean, Reston, Springfield, Sterling.
Lorton is also known as: Fairfax County / Lorton CDP.
Zip codes in the city: 20598, 22079, 22199.
Fairfax County funeral flowers can be purchased from one of the local funeral shops we partner with.
Pope Funeral Homes was established in 1920 by the late Alexander S. Pope, Sr. Our first location was at 315 15th Street S.E. Washington D.C. Mr. Pope, Sr. was a licensed professional from the former Echols Mortuary College in Philadelphia. Mr....
Adams-Green Funeral Home is one of the few remaining family-owned and operated funeral homes in the metropolitan area. Proudly serving Fairfax and Loudoun counties the funeral home has been family-owned and operated since 1885.
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Lorton Obituaries
History
From the early 20th century until November 2001, Lorton was the site of a District of Columbia prison facility called the Lorton Reformatory which, among other things, detained approximately 168 women from the women's suffrage movement from the Washington D.C. Before the identity of Lorton, the commercial center was Colchester and the spiritual and historical center of the community around which the leading citizens of the time revolved was Pohick Church. Woodlawn Plantation and Mt. A Nike missile site was built at Lorton in 1955, and remained until 1973. The population was 17,786 at the 2000 census.
Lorton is named for a town in the Lake District Park, Cumbria in England, the hometown of Joseph Plaskett who settled in the area running a general store and opened the Lorton Valley, Virginia Post Office on November 11, 1875.
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