Do you know the location of weather vane #89? Scroll down to the bottom to see the answer!
Today's weather vane was found on a private residence on East Broadway, Derry, New Hampshire. It is a bright, gilded banner flaunting a large letter A on the cupola of a Victorian style carriage house. The weather vane is easy to view if you pull into the parking lot of the Church of the Transfiguration, on a hill above the carriage house. According to the Derry Town Historian Richard Holmes, "It was built by Charles Abbott of the Abbott Downing Carriage Co. in 1895."
The Abbott Downing Carriage Company made the stage coaches you see in Western movies. Between 1847 and 1899 they built over 3000 stagecoaches and shipped them West by rail. An earlier Abbott Downing Company built over 700 coaches between 1827 and 1847. These types of coaches were sometimes known as "Concord Coaches" because the factory was in Concord, New Hampshire.
A "Concord Coach" photographed at the New Hampshire Historical Society Museum (note the Old Man of the Mountains painted on the door!) |
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ Brought to you by the Letter 'A'", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 3, 2013, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/04/weathervane-wednesday-brought-to-you-by.html: accessed [access date]).
Now, that's a beautiful Concord Coach. I'd love to take a ride in that!
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