The Secrets Our Clients In Lorton, VA Want You To Know About This DC Suburb

Описание: Moving to Lorton VA | Real Estate, Neighborhood & Lifestyles

Welcome to Lorton, Virginia. For many years, when you said Lorton, Virginia, you either thought “Prison” or “Auto Train to Disney World.”

Location
Lorton, Virginia is in the southernmost part of Fairfax County. It spans the east and west sides of 95 which runs north-south through Lorton. Pohick Road is the northern boundary and the Occoquan River is the southern boundary. The other side of the Occoquan River is Prince William County.
The VRE, Virginia Railway Express, runs through Lorton with the Fredericksburg Line. With the southernmost stop in Spotsylvania, the VRE runs north through Alexandria, Crystal City and crosses into DC. The DC stops include L’Enfant Plaza and the last stop at Union Station, where you can get the metro to other points within DC.

Route 1 is where a lot of commercial development is, and east of Route 1 it has an industrial feel. Lots of warehouses, trucking companies, landscaping / hardscaping supply stores.

Old Town Occoquan is in Woodbridge to the south and Springfield and Fort Belvoir is just to the north.

Fun Fact: Skipped it for the easy pass lanes, Lorton didn’t get an exit, so you have to take Backlick Road to get off. And you’ll need this information because the traffic here is tough. This stretch of 95 is one of the most congested roads we have in the DMV.

History
Lorton’s history is wrapped up in two words: Prison. Train.
When President Teddy Roosevelt deemed the DC Prison unsanitary and overcrowded, Congress approved the purchase of the land north of the Occoquan River that became the Correctional Complex. The goal was to become an agricultural work camp, with prisoners running the dairy, sawmill, blacksmith shop, pastures, poultry farm, hog ranch, slaughterhouse and orchard and cannery.

The Lorton Reformatory was in existence from 1910 to 2001. Prisoners of note included 168 women from the suffrage movement in 1917, Norman Mailer and Chuck Brown.

The prison closed in 2001, but we’re going to hear about it again, hold on a second.

In 1971, the privately owned Auto Train Corporation began transporting travelers to Orlando, with the ability to load their car on to the train. In 1981, Amtrak took over the Auto Train and they run it to present day. Melissa’s family took the original Auto Train in the late 1970’s on the way to Florida. Michael’s family did the same in the 1980’s and 1990’s.

Real Estate
The real estate in Lorton is fairly uniform – you will see lots of townhouse communities here. People generally move here for convenience to major transportation and for Fairfax County Schools.

Single family homes start in the $500,000’s to $600,000’s and go into the low to mid $1M’s. The lower price points are split levels, ranch homes, ramblers or colonials. In the $1M - $1.5M range, you have a lot of colonials and craftsman homes, and many estates on the water.

There are a few dozen neighborhoods in Lorton and most are part of planned communities. Lorton Valley is a community of 532 homes, with 30 townhomes just approved to be annexed into the community.

Mason Neck is to the east, a peninsula on the coast with wetlands and more rural properties. Laurel Highlands is off Silverbrook Road just west of 95 and the VRE.

There are townhomes in Gunston Commons and a 55+ community in Lorton as well. Crosspointe is a large neighborhood with single family homes and townhomes built mostly in the 90’s.

Newington Forest is off South Run Road between Pohick Road and Silverbrook Road.

If you want new luxury homes and condos, guess where we’re going. To the Lorton Prison! They made it into a residential community, now with the name Laurel Hill.

When people posted pictures of the prison on Instagram, I recall reading a comment that said, “Only white people would think it’s cool to live in an old prison.”

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