In 1928, the Colrain Shelburne Railroad abandoned the trolley bridge crossing the Deerfield River, creating a weed-infested eyesore.
The next year, the Shelburne Falls Women’s Club spread 80 loads of loam and several loads of fertilizer, and planted hundreds of flowers.
Today, the Bridge of Flowers is in glorious bloom from April 1 to October 30 with flowering trees, shrubs, perennials, vines, bulbs, and annuals.
Every year, tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world come to admire the Bridge.
Reopening is anticipated for spring 2025.
Before the Bridge of Flowers was transformed into a magnificent garden by the Shelburne Falls Women’s Club in 1929, the No. 10 Trolley rolled across it, connecting the town of Colrain to the railroad depot in Shelburne Falls.
Now you can ride the #10 at the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, located on Depot Street, in the same freight yard where it used to load and unload passengers, apples, mail, milk and other freight, one hundred years ago.
Mosaic Artist Cynthia Fisher, who grew up in Buckland MA, is fulfilling her desire to create public art for display in her own community. “ I enjoy working large and tackling all the challenges that ensue. This includes a lot of collaborating and communicating with stakeholders.” or other quote Overview about working with/involving community. Value of public art.
Potholes, also called “kettles,” form when sediment carried along by fast-flowing water whirls around in eddies and starts to scour a depression in the river’s bedrock. Larger debris gets trapped in the depression, drilling it deeper and wider, eventually creating these amazingly symmetrical potholes.
This stunning collection of potholes - ranging in size from 6 inches to 39 feet - started forming after the last glacier age about 14,000 years ago when the Deerfield River first started to flow.
