By Mary K. Witkowski Editor: Ann Marie Virzi Alice Whiting Farrar had many passions: music, church, education and above all, her family and their home on Bridgeport's East End. Skills she learned at a young age, especially sewing,served her well as a mother running a household with ...
Mary and Eliza Freeman and houses A History of Connecticut’s Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe, by Charles Brilvitch. Charleston, S.C.: History Press, 2007 Binder: Mary & Eliza Freeman Houses, Bridgeport, CT: Structural Condition Survey and Report, prepared by Norden, James F., P.E.; Gibble Norden Champion Brown Consulting Engineers, Old ...
Rationing of many products during World War II, such as food items, gasoline, and coffee, caused a surge of the black market--goods traded illegally. In August 1943, a rally in Marina Park was held to protest the black market. Shown in attendance in the rally ...
The Bridgeport Lighthouse, shown here in 1930, marked the entrance to the Bridgeport harbor for about 80 years. First constructed in 1871 by the federal government, it ushered in a dramatic increase in harbor activity. For a brief period, the Bridgeport lighthouse was one of the nation’s ...
Maisa Tisdale, President of the Mary and Eliza Freeman Center for History and Community, and Keith Stokes, Vice President of the 1696 Heritage Group, are interviewed by Lucy Nalpathanchil about Bridgeport's Little Liberia, a community that was settled by African and Native Americans in the ...
By: Charles Brilvitch A community of “free people of color” began to coalesce around the lower reaches of Bridgeport Harbor the same year (1821) that Bridgeport itself came into being. Comprised of freed blacks born in Connecticut, runaway enslaved persons from southern states, and remnants of ...
Bridgeport has often been called a "City of Neighborhoods." There are commonly used designations for the various areas of Bridgeport, each neighborhood historically attracting immigrants from a variety of ethnic groups. What has become the city of Bridgeport is the mixing of citizens who moved here ...
As a senior citizen, P.T. Barnum was a man who never stopped working. He never really retired and he never took it easy. Barnum always found something new to work on. His life in Bridgeport offered a busy schedule--traveling with the circus, serving with the State Legislature, ...
By Charles Brilvitch The Golden Hill Paugussett tribe has been a part of Greater Bridgeport’s history from time immemorial. The original indigenous people of this region, who greeted the first European explorers and settlers and who were responsible for the pottery fragments, arrowheads, and shell middens ...
In 1899 the Locomobile began as a steam-powered car. With inventor and electric car manufacturer Andrew Riker’s development of a new gasoline-powered engine for the company, Locomobile was soon one of the most popular cars in the world. The “Number 16” car pictured above won the 1908 Vanderbilt ...
By Mary K. Witkowski, Editor: Ann Marie Virzi In her 99 years on earth, Viola Bridgeforth, born in 1897, lived through many if not most of the profound changes that African-Americans and women in general experienced in the 20th century. Through all the changes, Viola Bridgeforth ...
