Get an ADT-Monitored Home Security System in Ashburn, Virginia

Ashburn is a census-designated place (CDP) in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. At the 2010 United States Census, its population was 43,511, up from 3,393 twenty years earlier. It is 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Washington, D.C., and allowance of the Washington metropolitan area.

Ashburn is a major hub for Internet traffic, due to its many data centers. Andrew Blum characterized it as the “bullseye of America’s Internet”.

Ashburn was originally called “Farmwell” (variant names include “Old Farmwell” and “Farmwell Station”) after a clear mansion of that broadcast owned by George Lee III. The name “Farmwell” first appeared in George Lee’s October 1802 will and was used to describe the 1,236-acre (500 ha) plantation he inherited from his father, Thomas Ludwell Lee II. A section of Farmwell plantation west of Ashburn Road, a 580-acre (230 ha) tract, was purchased in 1841 as a summer home by John Janney, a Quaker lawyer who nearly became Vice President of the United States. Janney called the property “Ashburn Farm”; the name’s first known impression in writing is 1870 subsequently he sold the property. It is likely he named the farm after family connections whose pronounce was Ashburn.