{"product_id":"bridgeport-ct-1875","title":"Vintage Map of Bridgeport, Connecticut 1875 | Restored Historic Print","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis \u003cstrong\u003evintage map of Bridgeport, Connecticut\u003c\/strong\u003e was drawn and published in \u003cstrong\u003e1875\u003c\/strong\u003e by \u003cstrong\u003eO.H. Bailey \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/strong\u003e This restored edition keeps the original street names, bridges, churches, factories, wharves, steamboats and the lettered and numbered guide to the city's landmarks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Historic Map\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawn from an elevated \u003cstrong\u003ebird's-eye perspective\u003c\/strong\u003e, the view looks up the \u003cstrong\u003ePequonnock River\u003c\/strong\u003e from the harbor, with downtown on one bank and \u003cstrong\u003eEast Bridgeport\u003c\/strong\u003e on the other. About 20,000 people lived here when it was made. East Bridgeport was still new: P.T. Barnum and William H. Noble had begun laying it out in 1851, and Wheeler and Wilson moved its sewing machine works there in 1856.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe guide names the \u003cstrong\u003ePost Office\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eCourt House\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eGeneral Passenger Depot\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eNaugatuck Dock\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eOrphan Asylum\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSeaside Park\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eWaldemere\u003c\/strong\u003e, along with about twenty churches and the city's makers, among them the \u003cstrong\u003eWheeler \u0026amp; Wilson Manufacturing Co.\u003c\/strong\u003e, the \u003cstrong\u003eElias Howe Sewing Machine Manufacturing Co.\u003c\/strong\u003e, the \u003cstrong\u003eJacob Kiefer Furniture Manufacturing Co.\u003c\/strong\u003e, the \u003cstrong\u003eStandard Publishing Co.\u003c\/strong\u003e and the \u003cstrong\u003eFarmer Publishing Co.\u003c\/strong\u003e Pictures along the bottom show the Seaside Park shore, the Kiefer furniture factory, the Wheeler \u0026amp; Wilson works and \u003cstrong\u003eWaldemere, the residence of P.T. 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