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The Concord coach was an American horse-drawn coach, often used as stagecoaches, mailcoaches, and hotel coaches. The term was first used for the coaches built by coach-builder J. Stephen Abbot and wheelwright Lewis Downing of the Abbot-Downing Company in Concord, New Hampshire, but later to be sometimes used generically. Like their predecessors ...
Abbot-Downing Company was a coach and carriage builder in Concord, New Hampshire, which became known throughout the United States for its products — in particular the Concord coach. The business's roots went back to 1813, and it persisted in some form into the 1930s with the manufacture of motorized trucks and fire engines.
Laconia Car Company manufactured railway cars in Laconia, New Hampshire from 1848 to 1928. Boston Elevated Railway streetcar built by Laconia Car Company in 1911 Laconia Car Company streetcar built in 1918 preserved at the Seashore Trolley Museum. The Ranlet Manufacturing Company began building horse-drawn wagons, carriages and stagecoaches in ...
Visitors can explore the town by horse-drawn carriage or surrey ride and stay for Solvang Julefest, one of the most unique Christmas festivals in the country. ... Keene, New Hampshire.
The number of horses varied according to difficulties of the route. Three, or a unicorn team were not unfamiliar, especially on the flatter roads of the north west. In Germany, Austria and some parts of Switzerland the Diligence was known as the Post Coach or Malle Post. —D. J. M. Smith in A Dictionary of Horse Drawn Vehicles [1]: 65
New Hampshire: Visit Mount Washington's Weather Station ... toys, horse-drawn carriages — roughly 100,000 artifacts in all. The buildings showcase New England architecture and include a round ...
New Hampshire Average income of the top 1%: $1,134,101 ... July 21, 2013: People on a horse drawn carriage in downtown Cheyenne. 4. Wyoming Average income of the top 1%: $1,900,659
Beginning in 1887, an annual Coaching Parade was held, with prizes awarded for lavishly decorated horse-drawn carriages. Ornamentations cost as much as $5,000, prompting visitor Phineas T. Barnum to proclaim it "the Second Greatest Show on Earth."