Bridgeport, Connecticut Lottery Bridge across the Pequonnock, connecting the wharves on its east and west banks. Bridgeport Bank was established in 1806. In 1821, the township of Bridgeport became independent of Stratford. The West India trade died down around 1840, but by that time the Bridgeport Steamship Company (1824) and Bridgeport Whaling Company (1833) had been incorporated and the Housatonic Railroad chartered (1836). The HRRC ran upstate along the Housatonic Valley, connecting with Massachusetts's Berkshire Railroad at the state line. Bridgeport was chartered as Connecticut's fifth city in 1836 in order to enable the town council to secure funding (ultimately $150,000) to
Lake Bridgeport, Texas Lake Bridgeport, Texas Lake Bridgeport is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. The population was 340 at the 2010 census. Lake Bridgeport is named for a lake on whose shore the city sits. Lake Bridgeport is located at (33.207240, -97.830997). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.5 square miles (1.2 km²), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 372 people, 137 households, and 106 families residing in the city. The population density was 785.0 people per square mile (305.6/km²). There were 223 housing units at