GUINEA
Guinea is situated on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad, about 50 miles north of Richmond and 12
miles south of Fredericksburg. The name was originally spelled
Guiney, and was always spoken of in the plural—Guiney's
The name is supposed to have been derived from a family of the
name which once lived nearby. Here are stores operated by E. C.
Allen, C. W. Colbert, Mills and Blaydes; the grist mill of D. L.
Cook, and the plant of the Dill Lumber Company, of Baltimore
of which Mr. E. V. Russell is the local manager. There are
many beautiful old homes around Guinea, among them "Ormesby,"
old estate of the Thorntons; "Hillford," old estate of the Motleys;
"Idlewild," home of the Chandlers and birthplace of Dr. J. A. C.
Chandler, President of William and Mary; "Burton Hall," home
of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Flippo; "Mill Hill," birthplace of
John Taylor; "Nyland," an old Chandler estate and now the
home of the Claibornes; "Spring Grove," home of Mr. and Mrs.
Cutler Beasley; "North Garden," home of the Thorntorns;
"Braynefield," old Buckner home; "Fairfield," old home of the
Chandlers, and many others. David Lloyd George, Prime
Minister of Great Britain, visited the old house at "Fairfield,"
in which Stonewall Jackson died, and standing by the old house
in the presence of Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Mayor Ainslie, of
Richmond, Editor Douglas Freeman and other notables, remarked:
"That old house witnessed the downfall of the Southern Confederacy."
Strawberries are shipped by the carload from Guinea
every year.
