Bruce Chadbourne

This past Saturday and Sunday, August 24-25, Coleman Memorial Chapel in Brickerville celebrated its 150th anniversary with events on the grounds of the chapel on Saturday and additional events and tours of Elizabeth Furnace on Sunday.

The historic Hambletonian Stakes, a harness racing event with a million-dollar purse, is set to run for its 99th year, tracing its lineage back to “Hambletonian 10,” a famous horse from 1849 whose bloodline runs into 90% of today’s trotters and pacers. So what’s the connection to Cornwall?

A footnote to our history on Robert H. Coleman, Florida Man – “More Grief for Robert H. Coleman.”

Part 5 of our history on Robert H. Coleman, Florida Man – “Sanctuary in Saranac Lake.”

Part 4 of our history on Robert H. Coleman, Florida Man – “Florida, Robert H. Coleman’s Other Life.”

Part 3 of our history on Robert H. Coleman, Florida Man – “The Busy Decade.”

Part 2 of our history on Robert H. Coleman, Florida Man – “Florida Man, as a Boy.”

Florida Man goes bankrupt on the Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West Railway – part 1.

The mystery surrounding Robert H. Coleman’s Cornwall mansions has energized local historians for decades.

How remarkable, the life of Anne Coleman Rogers.

The marriage of Anne Caroline Coleman and Archibald Rogers was the merger of two great fortunes.

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.

One of the features of the 18th century Cornwall Iron plantation that sustained a community of miners and furnace workers exists today only in photographs and old maps. All that remains are traces of a mill stream, yet what a story that can be told!