Additional Resources

 

Map of New Hampshire Coaches in Public Locations

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    Goodno Stage Routes

    http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/new-hampshires-lewis-downing-conquered-west/