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GUINES

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 697 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUINES  , a

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town in the interior of
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Havana
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province,
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Cuba, about 30 m . S.E. of Havana . Pop . (1907) 8053 . It is situated on a
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plain, in the midst of a
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rich
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plantation
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district, chiefly devoted to the cultivation of
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tobacco . The first railway in Cuba was built from Havana to Guines between 1835 and 1838 . One of the very few
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good highways of the
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island also connects Guines with the
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capital . The
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pueblo of Guines, which was built on a
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great private
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estate of the same name,
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dates back to about 1735 . The
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church dates from r85o . Guines became a "
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villa " in 1814, and was destroyed by
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fire in 1817 .

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