The seasonal footbridge – once a trolley bridge – has a garden of flowers covering it.

[1] Built for $20,000 in 1908 by the Shelburne Falls and Colrain Street Railway, so that freight could be picked up and dropped off directly from the railroads and brought to Colrain.

The history of the railway is preserved in the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum.

Since it was not needed as a footbridge and could not be demolished because it carried a water main between the two towns, the community agreed to her idea.

[8] On August 28, 2011, rain runoff from Hurricane Irene (at that point a tropical storm) flooded the Deerfield River and engulfed the Bridge of Flowers.