Bridge of Flowers
Bridge of Flowers is in Shelburne Falls. It has been given that name because there is a garden of flowers that covers the bridge. Built in 1908 by the Shelburne Falls and Colrain Street Railway, so that freight could be picked up and dropped off directly with the railroad. As automobile usage began to increase, freight began to be transported more by trucks, and the street railway company went bankrupt in 1927. In 1929, with the bridge covered in weeds, Antoinette Burnham came up with the idea of transforming the bridge into a garden. 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. -from Wikipedia
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