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, Wisconsin span over a slough and an island. In 1983, it was one of the last five Pennsylvania Truss bridges in Wisconsin, but it and all but one of the others were demolished by 1993. Bridgeport, Wisconsin Bridgeport is a town in Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 946 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Bridgeport is located in the town. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 23.3 square miles (60.4 km²), of which, 20.3 square miles (52.7 km²) of it is land and 3.0 square miles (7.7 km²)