Ashburn (Virginia)
Loudoun County
51-03320
Ashburn is an unincorporated community in Loudoun County, Virginia, 50 km west of Washington, DC and is part of the Washington Metropolitan Area.
History
Ashburn Farm was originally called Well ( different forms of the name: Old Farm Well Farm and Well Station). The name came from a nearby estate that George Lee III. belonged. The name Farm Well first emerged in George Lee 's Testament in October 1802 and was used as a description for the 5 km ² large plantation, which he had inherited from his father Thomas Ludwell Lee II. A part of the farm Well- plantation west of Ashburn Road, a 2.34 km ² large area was purchased in 1841 by lawyer and almost vice-president John Janney, a Quaker as a summer residence. John Janney called the property Ashburn Farm (first known written use in 1870, when he sold the property ). He has the farm probably by friends of the family who were called Ashburn, named.
1895 Ashburn Farm by Senator William Morris Stewart was purchased. Legend has it that the village that was known up to that station as a farm or farm Well Well, got its new name after 1896 flash in an ash tree on Senator Stewart struck farm. The ash is said to have reportedly burned and smouldered for a week and onlookers have attracted from afar. After the post office demanded a new name for the village (to avoid confusion with Farmville in Prince Edward County ) and the Senator was the leader of the area, the villagers have the place after the Ashwood Brand (English ash burn ) named.
Population
Today in Ashburn live a little more than 73,000 people (2006) and it is one of the largest unincorporated areas in Loudoun County. Many of the residents commute to their jobs in Washington, DC and its surrounding suburbs, inter alia, Tysons Corner and Reston.
Education
In Ashburn, there is the Briar Woods High School, the Broad Run High School and Stone Bridge High School. There is also for the rapidly growing population of three Middle Schools Elementary Schools and some.
In 2006, the Janelia Farm Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute was inaugurated on which there is a Ph.D. program.
Economy
In Ashburn are the headquarters of Verizon Business ( formerly Worldcom ), Old Dominion Brewing Company and the Washington Redskins, a team from the National Football League. Due to the headquarters of Worldcom Ashburn has evolved to the U.S. East Coast in the 1990s to the largest Internet node. In the Equinix and other operators numerous well-known providers and online services are represented.
Public services
Fire and rescue services are provided by volunteers from the Ashburn Volunteer Fire - Rescue Department and the Loudoun County Department of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Management.
Historical sights
Four sights are on the National Register of Historic Places: Belmont Plantation (1799 ), Broad Run Bridge and Toll House (1820 ), the sanctuary of Ashburn Presbyterian Church (1878), and Janelia Farm