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, New York Bridgeport, New York Bridgeport is a hamlet (and census-designated place) located partly in the town of Sullivan in Madison County, New York and partly in the town of Cicero in Onondaga County, New York. The population was 1,490 at the 2010 census. Bridgeport is located at (43.154472, -75.974888). According to the United States Census Bureau, the hamlet's total area is 1.724 square miles (4.47 km²). Bridgeport straddles the northward-flowing Chittenango Creek, which serves as the boundary between Onondaga County's town of Cicero on the west side of the creek and Madison County's town of Sullivan on the east side of