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.
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.
Located on Deerfield Avenue, just past the Baked restaurant and Heart for Art shop.
