Samuel Garland (1789–1861), attorney and plantation owner, was a native of Albemarle County who relocated by 1813 to Lynchburg, where he served in the county militia during the War of 1812 and established a legal practice. During his long and successful business career, he lived in a mansion on Garland Hill, supported railway expansion into the western part of the state, and was a founding trustee of the Lynchburg Manufacturing Company, which was incorporated in 1829 for the purpose of making fabric from cotton, flax, hemp, and wool. Although Garland owned relatively few slaves in Virginia, he deployed hundreds at three plantations he operated in the state of Mississippi during the latter part of his life. Virginia census records credit him with real estate worth $50,000 in 1850 and real estate and personal property valued at $27,000 a decade later. Estate inventories taken shortly after his death in Coahoma County, Mississippi, indicate that Garland’s holdings there were worth far more than the latter figure (Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. 1991 description ends , 199; DNA: RG 15, W1812PAFI; TJ to Archibald Robertson, 23 May 1815; S. Allen Chambers Jr., Lynchburg: An Architectural History [1981], 114; Richmond Enquirer, 30 Mar. 1832, 23 Oct. 1835; William Asbury Christian, Lynchburg and Its People [1900], 91–2; Acts of Assembly description begins Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia (cited by session; title varies over time) description ends [1828–29 sess.], 118–9 [9 Feb. 1829]; DNA: RG 29, CS, Lynchburg, 1820, 1840–50, 1850 slave schedules, Campbell Co., 1860; Lynchburg Hustings and Corporation Court Will Book, E:65–7, 106–10; gravestone inscription in Presbyterian Cemetery, Lynchburg; Southeastern Reporter 4 [1887/88]: 334–9).