Formosa/McCormac Bridge in Bellevue

There's a bridge over the Harpeth River on Old Harding Pike in Bellevue, the community in which we used to live in Nashville, that we used to cross several times a day. When we dropped the boys off at their dad's on Sunday, we noticed that the bridge had a new sign on it designating it as the Formosa/McCormac Bridge, and we wondered where the name came from.

I learned today on the Tennessean website that the bridge has been named to honor the memories of three people who died during last May's flooding. Two of them died trying to negotiate Sawyer Brown Brown Road, which we also used daily when we lived in Nashville, during the flood. The third died in her home in River Plantation condominiums, which are situated on either side of Sawyer Brown. (The country band Sawyer Brown is named for the street because they used to rehearse there.)