Trade Card No. 6 from the Arbuckle Coffee Company. "One of a series of 50 cards giving a pictorial history of the United States and Territories". This is a unique and wonderfully illustrated card. On the reverse of the card are a few advertising words for Arbuckle Coffee plus a short history on the state of Virginia. Chromolithographie Chromolithography out of a scrapbook, 1892, 0,3 x 0,5 inch/76 x 127 mm. Illustrations are bright and clean.

IN 1606 a company of merchants, called the "London Company," sent from England three small ships and 105 colonists who arrived in Virginia in April, 1607. They sailed up and down a river, which they named the James River, and selected a place to live upon which they called Jamestown. Captain John Smith was the leading man in the new settlement, and came at length to be governor. But it did not thrive, and the ruined church is all that is left of this settlement. It was the first English settlement on the Continent. The Virginia Company of London, which held the government of the colony in November, 1618, granted to Virginia a "Great Charter," under which the people of the colony were allowed a voice in making their own laws. This was the beginning of free government in America. The government of the United States, by President and House of Representatives, shows that the ideas put into the "Great Charter" have left their mark on the Constitution of our country.
The advance of the French military post along the Alleghanies led to war in 1754, and George Washington led the Virginia troops in an attempt to recover the colony's outposts on the upper Ohio.
Virginia took a leading part in the Revolution, and the Declaration of Independence was proposed by one of her deputies.
Early in 1861 the people of Virginia refused, by a majority of 60,000, to secede from the Union; but a few weeks later, after blood had been shed, she left the Union.
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