When Shirley Barber moved with her young family to Ashburn Farm in 1989, \u201cit was like the village of Oz dropped down into this country area \u2014 one road coming in and out, no buildings,\u201d she said. \u201cThere was nothing here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Barber and her husband, David Tabor, were the original owners of a house in the eastern Loudoun County community of 3,863 homes, most of which were built between 1988 and 1993. A few smaller neighborhoods were annexed into Ashburn Farm during the ensuing decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n —The Washington Post, July 8, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Shirley Barber moved with her young family to Ashburn Farm in 1989, \u201cit was like the village of Oz dropped down into this country area \u2014 one road coming in and out, no buildings,\u201d she said. \u201cThere was nothing here.\u201d Barber and her husband, David Tabor, were the original owners of a house in … Continue reading “In Loudoun County, \u2018village of Oz\u2019 turns into an amenity-rich, family-friendly neighborhood”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[79,18,107,3,179,13,6,34],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-ashburn","tag-business","tag-education","tag-loudoun-county","tag-real-estate","tag-recreation","tag-schools","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}