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Janelia or Janelia Farm is a mansion and former farm near Ashburn, Virginia, built in 1936 for artist Vinton Liddell Pickens and her husband Robert Pickens, a journalist. The farm property has become the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute , which surrounds the house.
Symington assumed management of the farm's operations after her husband became ill in the 1970s, and continued to operate it after his death. [9] Concerned about Loudoun County's rapid development and population growth, Mrs. Symington donated the 286 acre [ 10 ] farm to the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority (NVRPA) in 1985. [ 9 ]
Ashburn is a rapidly growing census-designated place (CDP) in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. At the 2010 United States census , its population was 43,511, [ 4 ] up from 3,393 in 1990. It is 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Washington, D.C. , and part of the Washington metropolitan area .
Print of Ashburnham from 1886 by L.R. Burleigh with list of landmarks. Ashburnham was first settled by Europeans in 1736, and was officially incorporated in 1765. The name is of British origin, possibly drawn from the Earl of Ashburnham, in Pembrey, or the Sussex community of Ashburnham.
Camp Peary is a U.S. military reservation in York County near Williamsburg, Virginia, which hosts a covert CIA training facility known as "The Farm". Officially referred to as an Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity ( AFETA ) under the authority of the Department of Defense , Camp Peary is approximately 9,000 acres.
Middleburg is a town in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 673 as of the 2010 census. It is the southernmost town along Loudoun County's shared border with Fauquier County. Middleburg is known as the "Nation's Horse and Hunt Capital" for its foxhunting, steeplechases, and large estates.
Loudoun County 1984–85 H. R. Crawford: District of Columbia 1986–87 Gil Weidenfeld: Greenbelt 1988–89 Ellen M. Bozman: Arlington County 1990 Betty Ann Kane: District of Columbia 1991 James E. Nathanson: District of Columbia 1992–93 Hilda Pemberton: Prince George's County 1994 Patricia S. Ticer: Alexandria 1995 Jack Evans: District of ...
The Farm puts a group of 12 to 14 people living together in a farm.The contestants must work as a normal farmer, raising animals and doing agriculture. In regular periods of time, one of the houseguests is evicted, usually in a ceremony called The Duel where they compete in a physical endurance, but in some adaptations of the show, it is the audience that decides, by telephone voting, who must ...