Additional Resources
Map of New Hampshire Coaches in Public Locations
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First Coach Built - 1826-1827
Last Coach Built - Circa 1900
Total Number built +/- 1,800
Weight of a Coach – Approximately 2,500 pounds
Height of a Coach – 8’, 6”
Size of Wheels – Rear 5’, 1” Front 3’, 10”
Width of the wheel track - Approximately five feet
Cost of a Coach - About $2,500 in 1860
Number of Horses to Pull a Coach – 2, 4, or 6
Number of Coaches Remaining - +/-160
Number remaining in New Hampshire - 21
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Our Yellow Coach - #XIV (1847) Gift from Jean Fernandez
Our Brown Coach - #VIII (ca 1850) – Gift from Dartmouth College
J.J. Kelty Coach- #XXXVI (ca 1850) - Gift from Waitsfield Telecom, Waitsfield, VT
Concord Monitor - #113 (1866) Center Harbor
Concord Group Insurance Co. - #80 Lake Village Stage Co
New Hampshire Historical Society - #65 (1852) Formerly at Concord RR Station
The Flume ( State of NH) - #431 (1874) Plymouth & Franconia
Mount Washington Auto Road - Fabian House
Amherst Historical Society - Amherst Depot Coach
New London Historical Society - #425 (1874)
Andover Lions Club - #36 &# XXXVI (circa 1850)Joint Effort - Dual numbers
Town of Sandwich - XVI (1850s)
Francestown Historical Society - In a New Museum
Moultonborough Country Store - #XXII Recently Restored
Tom Prescott (Johnny Prescott & Son Oil) Concord - #491 (1880) 12 Passenger Coach
Tom Prescott - #23 The Green “Morton Coach” from The Highway Hotel 6 Passenger Coach
Tom Prescott - Jefferson Hill House #XLI (1846) Formerly at Six Gun City
Private Owner Concord, NH - #273 Turner’s Tavern - Bethlehem (1875) On Display at Prescott Oil
Marshall Collection - #428 Epsom & Northwood and Bridgton & Harrison
Marshall Collection - #455 “Coach Break”
Marshall Collection - The Coach from the Willowbrook Museum
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Stagecoach East - Oliver W. Holmes and Peter Rohrbach
Stagecoach West - Ralph Moody
Stagecoach-Wells Fargo and the American West - Philip L. Fradkin
The Butterfield Overland Mail - Waterman L. Ormsby
On the Road North of Boston: New Hampshire Taverns and Turnpikes - Donna-Belle Garvin and James L. Garvin
Abbot-Downing: Coach and Wagon Makers to the World - Donna-Belle Garvin, Editor
Abbot-Downing and the Concord Coach - Harry N. Scheiber
Concord's Waggon Men - Edward Rowse
A Treatise on Carriages - William Felton
Some Websites
wellsfargo.com/about/history/stagecoach/concord
theconcordcoach.tripod.com/abbotdowning/id3.html
www.over-land.com/ccoachg.html A gallery of Charles Bourbeau photos
www.concordhistoricalsociety.org/the-concord-coach/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagecoach#Concord_stagecoaches
http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/new-hampshires-lewis-downing-conquered-west/