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, Oklahoma including no under eighteens and 21.6% of those over 64. Bridgeport, Oklahoma Bridgeport is a town in Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 116 at the 2010 census. Bridgeport was so named on account of there being a toll bridge over the Canadian River at that point. Bridgeport is located on the northern border of Caddo County at (35.546717, -98.383401) and at an elevation of . It is bordered to the north by Blaine County. The town is built on the south side of the valley of the Canadian River, overlooking its floodplain. Former U.S. Route 66 is