The Bridge of Flowers is in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. It has been given that name because there is a garden of flowers that covers the bridge. for $20,000 in 1908 by the Shelburne Falls and Colrain Street Railway, so that freight and people could be brought up to the nearby mills in Colrain, as the nearby Iron Bridge had a twenty-ton weight limit. As automobile usage began to increase, freight began to be transported more by trucks, and the street railway company went bankrupt in 1927. The history of the railway is preserved in the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum.