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Bridgeport History Center

Come visit us and discover history!

Open to the public: Thursday – Saturday, 10-5
(Monday through Wednesday by appointment only)
For appointments call 203-576-7400, ext. #7

Bridgeport History FACTS

Fact #3: 1933: Jasper McLevy won first term as Mayor of Bridgeport.

Connecticut Humanities Council

Bridgeport History Center was made possible through a grant from the Connecticut Humanities Council

Recent Posts

  • Bridgeport Train Wreck, July 11, 1911
  • Bridgeport’s Rosie the Riveter
  • Bridgeport, Connecticut The “Right” Flight
  • Memoir Writing in May
  • Abolishment of Hard Times: Part Two
  • President Kennedy in Bridgeport November 5, 1960
  • Bridgeport Back in the Day Club in March
  • Bridgeport Soap Box Derby
  • Baldwin Plaza in 1974
  • Civil War Lecture – July 27th and 28th
  • Bridgeport Tornado of 1876
  • fayerweather-lighthouse
  • P.T. Barnum
  • Bridgeport Titanic Survivor Drowns in Beardsley Pond?
  • Bridgeport Working:Voices of the 20th Century
  • The Progressive Bridgeport Fire Department
  • General William Henry Noble
  • Merritt Canteen
  • The Locomobile Company of America
  • M. Daly’s Bridgeport: Pleasure Beach
  • A Witch Hanged in Bridgeport
  • The Iron Horse of the Housatonic
  • Elizabeth (Isabel) Medina
  • Dutch Schultz
  • Black Bridgeporters

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