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Excerpt from Virginia in Black and White
What is fairer than the Piedmont Valley, that might be taken for a painter's dream of Italy, framed in the encircling Blue Ridge? The pastoral lands of the James River, the stately old homes near Richmond, the rich farms of the Shenandoah Valley, and east of the Blue Ridge, all give evidence of past and future wealth. 'all these things we see in a ride over the Chesa peake Ohio Railway.
It was in Virginia that. Was forged the first link in the chain that has bound the New World to the Old. After repeated expeditions, for the most part set on foot by Sir Walter Raleigh, some of them disastrous, and all nearly fruitless in results, Sir Richard Grenville, in 1585, founded a colony on Roanoke Island, in Albemarle Sound, off the northern coast of what is now North Carolina but the settlers returned to England, and in 1587 a second colony was planted there. It disappeared, and to this day no man has ever learned what fate befell the colonists. For a time it seemed that America was to be given up to the French and Spanish, and that the latter would become the masters of the Western continent. But in May, 1607, some hardy Englishmen, about one hundred in number, landed on a point of land in what is now the James River and established Jamestown. Then began American history.
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