Women Suffrage Prisoners at Occoquan Workhouse

Occoquan Regional Park

Adjacent to this park a group of women was imprisoned in 1917 for demanding the right to vote. The road to Occoquan Workhouse had started in 1848.

In July 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, officially ...

Occoquan Workhouse

In the nearby Occoquan Workhouse, from June to December, 1917, scores of women suffragists were imprisoned by the District of Columbia for picketing the White House demanding their right to vote. Their courage and dedication during harsh treatment aroused the ...

Occoquan Workhouse

This marker honors the suffragists imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse in 1917 and 1918, for picketing the White House to gain support for an amendment to the Constitution to give women the right to vote. The women were members of ...