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, California between July 1915 and June 1916, including in January 1916. The maximum snow cover was on February 25, 1969. In the California State Legislature, Bridgeport is in , and in . Bridgeport is in . Bridgeport is the tribal headquarters for the Bridgeport Paiute Indian Colony of California. Bridgeport is in the Eastern Sierra Unified School District, which has its main office in town. An elementary school and a high school (Eastern Sierra Academy) are located in Bridgeport. Bridgeport also has a public library. Bridgeport is the setting of the 1947 film "Out of the Past"; several sequences were filmed