Bean Blossom Bridge

Located one half mile southwest of the junction of State Road 135 and Highway 45, the Bean Blossom Bridge, was built in 1880 by Captain Joseph Balsy at a cost of $1200. Today, the red painted bridge, named a Rand McNalley Best of the Road attraction for 2003, which crosses Bean Blossom Creek and is still open to traffic.

Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival

Each June, Bean Blossom, normally a sleepy little hamlet, changes when the strumming of banjos, fiddles, mandolins, guitars and a lot of foot stomping drowns out the sounds of the crickets during Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival, a local happening for over 40 years.

Monroe developed the style of music we've come to know as bluegrass, the name coming from his band the Blue Grass Boys. He hailed from Kentucky, the Bluegrass State, and his music combined Appalachian folk with its English, Scottish and Irish roots along with blues and gospel.