Concord Coach Awaiting New Museum for Iconic Stagecoaches

A Concord Coach once owned by Henry Ford was moved from its longtime home Thursday and will eventually join a city museum about the company’s long history of making what was once the nation’s preferred method of long-distance travel.

The coach was taken from the former headquarters of the Concord Group, 4 Bouton St., where it has been displayed for a half-century.

The Coach, No. 80, will be stored away while money is raised and work is done to turn the former Concord Stables, a dilapidated concrete facility once used to store the horses that pulled Concord’s famous coaches, into a museum for the history of the coaches and their maker, the Abbott-Downing Co.

Fund-raising is ongoing for the new museum, which is not expected to open for a couple of years.