On the night of November 14, 1917, known as the "Night of Terror", the superintendent of the Occoquan Workhouse (a former prison complex in Lincolnia, Virginia), W.H. Whittaker, ordered the nearly forty guards to brutalize the suffragists; thus they threw Lewis into a dark cell and smashed her head against an iron bed, knocking her out.
The Lorton Reformatory, also known as the Lorton Correctional Complex, is a former prison complex in Lorton, Virginia, established in 1910 for the District of Columbia, United States. 
Laurel Hill, Virginia 
