Stoney Lonesome Cemetery, located about 300 yards west of Old Ox Road, and 500 yards north of the medium security facility at (now defunct) Lorton Prison. The cemetery is located in a stand of trees that covers about 100 ft x 30 ft along the south side of the access road to a fishing pond. The entire copse of trees (some of which appear to be 70-80 years old) is filled with north-south rows of grave depressions, each row containing 10 – 14 burials. There appear to be 50-100 graves, but only a few rudimentary grave markers, at least two of which are marked "STAR12," and one marked "VANDYKE 2." It is not known if Star and VanDyke are surnames corresponding to burials, or are just generic row markers. In the 1994 official cemetery by Fairfax County, the cemetery was described as wooded and overgrown.



Lorton Prison, properly known as the District of Columbia Workhouse and Reformatory, also known as the District of Columbia Correctional Facility, was opened in 1910 as a minimum security facility. As it expanded over the years it came to include medium and high security areas, as well as a juvenile detention facility. In 1917 the Occoquan Workhouse (part of the larger facility) housed as many as 100 women suffragettes who were arrested while picketing the White House. Lorton Prison was officially closed in 2002.



In 2002, Fairfax County nominated the Lorton Prison facility, with many of its buildings and surrounding grounds, to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places. "Although the majority of the [nominated area] is included within a single area, a small discontiguous parcel that is less than one acre in size and encompasses the site of Stoney Lonesome, a prison cemetery, exists a few yards to the west of the boundary of the primary parcel." The nomination describes Stoney Lonesome (Prison Graveyard) as built circa 1920 and "was used by the prison as a burial site for indigent prisoners whose families did not or could not claim their remains. Stoney Lonesome is located about 300 yards west of the original alignment of Ox Road, just north of the Workhouse campus."



Fairfax County Cemetery Survey No. FX203; Virginia State Archaelogical Site No. 44FX1242.