Lucy Maud Montgomery's fictional "Anne of Green Gables" parallels the real-life story of Anne Caroline Coleman, whose rich family history stretches from the late 18th to the 20th century in America, intersecting with prominent figures like Eleanor Roosevelt and the Habersham family of Georgia, illuminating her family's influential role in American history.
It's long been said that the wealthy industrialist Robert H. Coleman ordered the demolition of an unfinished mansion in Cornwall and sent the remaining stones to St. Luke's Episcopal Church, but there's more to this local legend than is commonly known.