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Title: Connecticut of to-day : its chief business centres. Illustrated. 1890
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Acme publishing and engraving co. (New York)
Subjects: New York (N.Y.). Acme publishing and engraving company
Publisher: New York : ACME publishing and engraving co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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river andharbor improvements, her present and her future are largely influenced by the facilities for railroad transporta-tion the city may possess. This thriving city is in first-class railroad communication with New York andBoston, with the West from Albany, and with the Naugatuck valley ; and there are upwards of seventy arrivalsand departures of trains daily at this point. Its facilities for commerce are unsurpassed, having within itslimits the Bridgeport, and one-half of the Black Rock harbors. That part of the city known as East Bridge-port is connected with the other part by four free public bridges across the Pequonnock river, and there is anample foot-bridge on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad bridge. The Housatonic Railroad, BRIDGEPORT. 105 incorporated in 1830, running through ihe western part of Connecticut, ami fully opened for business in 1842,—the result of tlie great persevcrence and energy of Alfred Bishop,—placed Bridgeport in as favorable a position
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y^^^^^G^^ a.4. as any other seaport town in New England in its railway connections with the West, and was really the germ ofthe rapid growth of the manufactures and commerce of the city. Hardly less important, however, has been 106 BRIDGEPORT the effect of the Naugatuck Railroad upon this part of the county, which, incorporated in 1845, to run fromWinsted to Bridgeport, and not fully operated till 1S49, has opened up to this county, and to Bridgeport inparticular, the advantages that flow from the extensive manufacturing interests in the Naugatuck valley.

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