Glancing into Garland Hill from Lynchburg’s 5th Street gives a hint of the mansions lining its streets that once housed Lynchburg’s elite businessmen.
Madison and Harrison streets, in particular, feature turreted Queen Anne-style homes, Greek Revival homes with columned porticos, and the steeply pitched roofs of the late Victorians.
“Garland Hill remains today one of the more distinctive and well-preserved historic neighborhoods in Lynchburg,” according to the City of Lynchburg’s website. “...The neighborhood did not achieve the peak of its ascendancy until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when some of the City's early tobacco and shoe industrialists began to settle in the district.”
The small neighborhood bound by Blackwater Creek’s steep slope and the 5th Street corridor began not as a wealthy subdivision but as farmland owned by William B. Lynch, son of Lynchburg founder John Lynch.
The farm, which wasn’t originally part of the 45-acre plot from which John Lynch built his city, stretched from the creek to 3rd Street, according to the Garland Hill Historic District. William Lynch’s home, built in 1787, now stands at 208 Madison Street.
The first home built on the hill after Lynch’s was that of Walter Dunnington, built in 1817, which stands at 303 Madison Street, on two acres of farmland he purchased from Lynch, according to the district’s application for inclusion on the Virginia Historic Landmarks register.
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