Bridgeport
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- Names
Bridgeport
Newfield
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Long Island Sound at mouth of Pequonnock River in SW Connecticut; incorporated as a borough in 1800; later named Bridgeport in reference to drawbridge over river; changed from agrarian to manufacturing center due to harbor's strategic location.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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