Ashburn is a census-designated place in Loudoun County, Virginia. It is 30 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. and part of the Washington metropolitan area. The majority of the world's Internet traffic passes through Ashburn. Ashburn was originally called Farmwell (variant names include Old Farmwell and Farmwell Station) after a nearby mansion of that name 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 plantation he inherited from his father, Thomas Ludwell Lee II. A section of Farmwell plantation west of Ashburn Road, a 580-acre 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 appearance in writing is 1870 when he sold the property. It is likely he named the farm after family friends whose name was "Ashburn.”
Located within the Dulles Technology Corridor, Ashburn is home to many high-tech businesses. World Trade Center Dulles Airport is the second World Trade Center in the state. Verizon Business has a major office in Ashburn at the location replacing MCI WorldCom's headquarters after its acquisition. Ashburn is also home to government contractor Telos, and Amazon Web Services’s us-east-1 region of cloud computing resources. Loudoun County houses over 60 massive data centers, with many housing the cloud operations of Amazon Web Services (AWS). The George Washington University's Virginia Science and Technology Campus and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus are located in Ashburn. Redskins Park, the training camp for the Washington Football Team of the National Football League, is also located in Ashburn. The Wikimedia Foundation (parent of Wikipedia) has its primary data center in Ashburn. EADS North America (the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company), renamed Airbus Group, Inc., a defense contractor headed by former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe, has a second location in Ashburn in addition to the main office in Herndon, Virginia.
When the second phase of the Washington Metro Silver Line is completed, Ashburn will be served by two metro stations: the Loudoun Gateway Metrorail Station, and the Ashburn Metrorail Station. The Silver Line will enter Ashburn in the middle median of the 267 Toll Road, after passing through Dulles Airport. The first stop in Ashburn will be the Loudoun Gateway station, and phase 2 of the Silver Line will end at the Ashburn station.
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