The original Little Falls Bridge, across Hobart Stream, was a wooden structure with a low wooden railing on either side of the roadbed, until 1902 when William Bell was First Selectman of Edmunds. At that time, a change was made to an iron bridge, a 100-foot span. The granite for the abutments was hauled from the railroad station by John Burns, who drove his team onto the old bridge, and dropped the huge rocks into the stream at high tide, to be lifted into place by derrick during low tide. Leverett Jones prepared the cement for Gus Whitney and John Crowley, who did the stonework. The assembling of the iron bridge, which cost $3,000, was done by an Italian crew from New York.

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