Abbott, Downing & Company

Abbott, Downing & Company was a coach-building firm founed by Leon Abbott and Lewish Dowing. The plant employed a labor force of three hundred craftsmen who worked a six day week of fourteen hous a day. The firm's most famous creation was the Concord stagecoach and these coaches were used by most major overland mail and passenger companies during the turbulent era of western expnasion.