{"id":270,"date":"2011-01-04T18:07:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T23:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/?p=270"},"modified":"2020-12-11T16:52:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:52:41","slug":"bridgeport-lighthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/fairfield-county\/bridgeport-lighthouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgeport Lighthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bridgeport Lighthouse, shown here in 1930, marked the entrance to the Bridgeport harbor for about 80 years.<\/p>\n<p>First constructed in 1871 by the federal government, it ushered in a dramatic increase in harbor activity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For a brief period, the Bridgeport lighthouse was one of the nation\u2019s armed lights. During the Spanish American War, a battery of 10-inch guns were installed to protect the harbor from Spanish warships.<\/p>\n<p>Just beyond the light is the ferryboat the Park City, which operated between Bridgeport and Port Jeffferson, Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>The Bridgeport Lighthouse was demolished in 1953 after a fire.<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more about the Bridgeport Lighthouse? The Bridgeport History Center has the following material available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Newspaper Clipping File, &#8220;Lighthouses and Buoys&#8221; from the Bridgeport History Center colelction<\/li>\n<li>Bridgeport on the Sound, by Mary K. Witkowski and Bruce Williams.<\/li>\n<li>The Lighthouses of Connecticut by Jeremy D\u2019Entremont<\/li>\n<li>Lighthouses of Southern New England: A Pictorial Guide by Courtney Thompson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,38,45],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fairfield-county","category-maritime","category-south-end","tag-bridgeport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12482,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/12482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}