The Amtrak Auto Train to and from Florida has Lorton as its northern terminal.

Five Guys, a hamburger chain, has its headquarters in Lorton.

Considerable development has taken place in Lorton during the last few years, including on the former prison grounds.

The Trust currently also has six wildlife education and outreach centres around the county ( Purbeck Marine Wildlife Reserve, Kingcombe Meadows, Lorton Meadows, Brownsea Island, Urban Wildlife Centre, and Brooklands Farm itself ).

It has a woodland area ( which has been named Teddy Bear woods, referencing to the famous nursery rhyme ) managed by Dorset Wildlife Trust, part of their Lorton Meadows nature reserve.

The village consists of 114 households in total with the total area of 5, 501 acres Lorton also has a small primary school, a church ( St. Cuthbert's 12th century Church ), a post office and a tennis club.

As of 2001 census, Lorton has a population of 250 people, 114 of which being males and 136 females.

FCWA has since expanded its filtration capacity several times, with the introduction of new plants at Lorton and Occoquan in the 1960s, and a new plant near Herndon, Virginia in 1982.

* History of Lorton prison and Nike missile site

Vamoose Bus, a privately owned company, provides daily transportation from the Lorton VRE Station parking lot to Penn Station / Madison Square Garden in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

Lorton is named for a village in the Lake District National 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.

Near the Lorton VRE commuter rail station on Lorton Station Boulevard are: Wells Fargo, Subway, Fireside Grill, Pane e Vino, K & C Pharmacy, dry cleaner, Music & Arts, salon, Lasani Kabob, FedEx / Kinkos, and other shops.

The main cemetery on the Lorton Road is something of a walker's garden, featuring streams, humped stone bridges and views of the nearby fells.

Auto-Train Corporation's new service began operations on December 6, 1971 between Lorton, Virginia and Sanford, Florida.

Lorton is relatively untouched by tourism, although many tourists pass through on the way to the Buttermere valley.

Lorton is a fairly isolated village as the residents have to travel on average 27. 73km to workplace with 102 people out of 250 aged 16-74 are economically active whilst only 6 are unemployed.

In 1811, Lorton was at the peak of prosperity and population due to high demand on agricultural products as England was recovering from the Napoleonic Wars ( 1803-1815 ).

Upon the death of Parris, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell said in a statement that Parris " played major leadership roles " in endeavors as varied as the establishment of the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Old Town Alexandria to flood control and closing the District of Columbia ’ s former Lorton Reformatory in Fairfax County, and that " He used his time on this Earth to help others, and to effectively advance the ideas and principles in which he believed.

Unfortunately, the success with the original Lorton — Sanford Auto-Train did not replicate itself on the Louisville-Sanford run, in part due to the poor timekeeping of the Floridian and this train was discontinued before Auto-Train itself finally succumbed to financial difficulties in the early 1980s.

Five Guys Enterprises, LLC / Five Guys Holdings, LLC, doing business as Five Guys, is a fast casual restaurant chain focused on hamburgers, hot dogs, and French fries with its headquarters in the Lorton community in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia.

Heintzelman was in overall command of the 2nd Michigan Infantry regiment that was responsible for the raid, ransacking, and devastation of the Pohick Church in Lorton, Virginia, on November 12, 1861.

Lorton, Virginia is about a half-hour drive south of Washington, D. C., just off Interstate 95 in Northern Virginia.

* Ebeling, Florian, The secret history of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from ancient to modern times from the German by David Lorton ( Cornell University Press: Ithaca, 2007 ), ISBN 978-0-8014-4546-0.

Within Virginia, U. S. 1 is called Jefferson Davis Highway by state law, although most of the Fairfax County portion, except Lorton, is better known as Richmond Highway.

Lorton is a village in Otoe County, Nebraska, United States.

Lorton is located at ( 40. 596122 ,-96. 023839 ).

* Lorton ( 6. 5 miles SE )

Lorton is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Fairfax County, Virginia, USA.

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.

From the early 20th century until November 2001, Lorton was the site of a District of Columbia correctional facility called the Lorton Reformatory which, among other things, detained approximately 168 women from the women's suffrage movement from the Washington D. C. area from June to December 1917.

A Nike missile site was built at Lorton in 1955, and remained until 1973.

Lorton also is one of the two stations that serves Amtrak's Auto Train which carries passengers and their vehicles non-stop to Sanford, FL, about 30 minutes away from Orlando, FL.

The Lorton and Occoquan Railroad once operated between the Lorton Reformatory and Occoquan, Virginia, with connection to the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad.

Lorton is part of the Fairfax Public School System.

There are six elementary schools to serve Lorton residents, Gunston Elementary, Lorton Station, Silverbrook, Laurel Hill, and Halley.

* Cape Breton Wireless Heritage Society

There are also the Pub Design Awards, which are held in association with English Heritage and The Victorian Society.

The island ’ s two-floor museum situated in a building near the base of Jacob ’ s Ladder was opened the same year and is operated by the St Helena Heritage Society.

* Shaker Heritage Society, Albany, NY

* Germans From Russia Heritage Society

In 1976 William Howard Bennett, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, published Symbols of Our Celto-Saxon Heritage with the aim of establishing what he believed were the Israelite origind of British heraldry.

* Strasburg Heritage Society Website

Also Clifton Forge serves a major locomotive fuel facility for CSX Transportation and is home to the Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society and C & O Railway Heritage Center.

* Los Isleños Heritage and Cultural Society

In 2003, a book entitled Richmond Indiana: Its Physical Development and Aesthetic Heritage to 1920 by Cornell University architectural historians, Michael and Mary Raddant Tomlan, was published by the Indiana Historical Society.

In 2002, a partnership between Thurrock Council, Thurrock Heritage Forum and the Thurrock Local History Society began an initiative to place heritage plaques marking the famous people, events and organisations associated with Thurrock.

Critics, such as the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society ( TJHS ) Scholars Commission ( 2001 ), have argued against the TJF report and reached different conclusions about the DNA tests.

* Eyler Robert Coates, Sr., ed., The Jefferson-Hemings Myth, An American Travesty ( Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001 )

* Rebecca L. and James F. McMurry, Jr., " Anatomy of a Scandal, Thomas Jefferson and the Sally Story ", ( Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2002 )

* Scholars Commission Report, Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001

* Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland

* San Lorenzo Heritage Society

* History of Pacific Grove ( Pacific Grove Heritage Society )

Reconstructions of Fort Payne and the Pre-Emption House stand as part of Naper Settlement outdoor museum village, which was first established by the Naperville Heritage Society and the Naperville Park District in 1969 to preserve some of the community's oldest buildings.

* Swiss Heritage Society

( A blue plaque has been embedded in a former residence of Russell by the British Heritage Society which reads ‘ Fred Russell the father of ventriloquism lived here ’) Fred Russell ’ s success using a single figure and creating a comedy team format immediately began to be applied by other ventriloquists.

* ( http :// www. ludlowmuseum. org is the site for the Ludlow Heritage Society & Museum

In 2007 the Port Tobacco Archeological Project was begun by a partnership among the Archeological Society of Maryland, the Society for the Restoration of Port Tobacco, the Southern Maryland Heritage Area Consortium, Preservation Maryland, and Preserve America.

November 17, 2009, marked the grand opening of the Damascus Heritage Society Museum — a project years in the making that aims to preserve the history of Damascus, MD.