BRIDGE PORT

a city and seaport of Fairfield county, Connecticut, U.S., 68 miles N.K. of New York, is situated on an arm of Long Island Sound, at the mouth of the Pequonnock River. The harbour has a bar with 18 feet of water at high tide, and is cro ed 1} mile from the entrance by a bridge 1237 feet long. There is a lighthouse on Fair weather Island. Bridge port has a large coasting trade, and a number of ve els engaged in whalefii^eries, but is chiefly supported by its manufactures, in duding the large sewing-machine factories of Wheeler, Wilson, ic Co. The dty is handsomely laid out) and beautifully shaded with trees. There is daily steam-boat communication with New York. The population of Bridge port has increased very rapidly since 1860, when it was 7660; by the census of 1870 it was 18,969.