Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport, Connecticut’s largest city, is known as "The Park City" the city that Barnum built. Phineas Taylor Barnum, you know him better as P.T., was the showman turned mayor who made this port city into a major manufacturing center during the early 19th century. By the time his term ended, Bridgeport was well known throughout the United States and the world. The city, the most populous in the state, is a port on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Pequonnock River. Black Rock Harbor is a deep, protected harbor that developed as a trade port and shipbuilding center in the 18th century. Black Rock was once part of Fairfield, but now is a neighborhood of the city of Bridgeport. Settled in 1639, it was first known as Newfield and later as Stratfield.. In 1800 it was incorporated as a borough and named Bridgeport for the first drawbridge over the river. Today the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company provides daily ferry service between Bridgeport and Port Jefferson, Long Island from their new terminal and docking facility and major transportation hub. One of Bridgeport’s newest attractions is Harbor Yard, the home of the popular Bridgeport Bluefish Professional Baseball team – now the most successful minor league team in the USA and home field for Sacred Heart University. Other Bridgeport attractions include the Beardsley Zoo, which has a proud history of over 75 years as Connecticut’s only zoo. Captain’s Cove Seaport, home to the HMS Rose, the world's largest active wooden sailing vessel a full-rigged ship, a replica of an 18th century Royal Navy frigate that cruised the American coast during the American Revolution.
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