Built in 1888, originally to provide mill workers easy movement from one side of the AuSable River (where they lived) to the other (where they worked).
One of a small number of suspension footbridges built by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company of East Berlin, Connecticut, a firm known primarily for its patented lenticular truss. Berlin Iron furnished the labor, the lattice-braced steel towers, the five-strand steel wire cables, suspenders, and the floor system for a contract price of $3,500.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and one of a group of three bridges in this village collectively designated a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
There is parking at either end of the bridge.