The story is in a 45-page pamphlet called "The Book o' the Brig," and was written in 1904 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to help raise money to rebuild a wooden bridge that had been flooded in town.

"I can't remember how much they raised...they wanted it to be a carriage bridge, but they didn't get quite enough for that," Elliot said.

Instead, he added, they built an iron bridge "and it's still there today."