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Bridgeport, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Jackson. Associated ZIP codes: 35740.
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An Alabama man has been charged with setting fire to a Mississippi police department that has faced protests in the months since an officer fatally shot a 1-...
Alabama Marine Resources officials say several years of poor water conditions have contributed to a significant decline in oyster numbers. Because of the dec...
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Bridgeport is in Jackson County, Alabama.
Region: North Alabama
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An Alabama man has been charged with setting fire to a Mississippi police department that has faced protests in the months since an officer fatally shot a 1-...
Alabama Marine Resources officials say several years of poor water conditions have contributed to a significant decline in oyster numbers. Because of the dec...
Bridgeport, on the Tennessee River in Jackson County, developed after the 1840s around a riverboat landing where farmers traded crops for goods. A hamlet called Jonesville grew up there, with a trading post, gristmill, warehouses and saloons, and its post office opened in 1852.
Because river levels made boat trade unreliable, merchants pressed for a railroad, which reached Jonesville in 1852. A railroad bridge across the Tennessee to Chattanooga was completed in 1854, and in recognition the town was renamed Bridgeport. A second line, north to Jasper, Tennessee, was begun in 1860 but not finished until after the Civil War. On both a railroad and the river, Bridgeport was strategic in the war. Its bridge was a target of the failed East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy of November 1861 and was burned twice during the war. Union General Ormsby Mitchel seized the town, and skirmishes followed in 1862 and 1863 as Confederates tried to retake the area. Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg burned the town in the summer of 1863, but Union forces reoccupied it, and late in the war Bridgeport was the site of a major Union shipyard. Sources Wikipedia: Bridgeport, Alabama
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