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
Bridgeport, Nebraska 9.4% of those age 65 or over. The Bridgeport Public Schools school district has one elementary school and one junior/senior high school, both located in Bridgeport. The data below are from the WRCC, compiled from 1897 to when this chart was created (July 2018). The lowest temperature ever recorded in the state of Nebraska (-47 ºF) was witnessed at Bridgeport on February 12, 1899. This record was later tied by the city of Oshkosh on December 22, 1989; that month, Bridgeport fell to -42 ºF. Bridgeport, Nebraska Bridgeport is a city in Morrill County, Nebraska, United States. The population was