About Bridgeport, West Virginia

Bridgeport is a city of 9,336 people in Harrison County. The trapper and fur trader John Simpson came into this country in 1764, and the creek that runs through town still carries his name. Settlers put up a fort here between 1771 and 1774, and somewhere along Simpson Creek they built the first recorded gristmill, sometime before 1787. Bridgeport received its town charter in 1816 and was incorporated in 1887.

Stockyards appeared early in the 19th century, and in 1838 the local stretch of the Northwestern Virginia Turnpike opened, giving Bridgeport its first direct road to Clarksburg. Stagecoaches started running on it in 1852, and the old turnpike route later became U.S. Route 50. When the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad came through in the 1850s, the town turned into a busy shipping point for the region's cattle.

  • A name from Simpson CreekEarly settlers crossed Simpson Creek on a floating bridge of logs tied with hickory branches, and a covered wooden bridge followed in the early 19th century. Local tradition says Joseph Johnson saw the bridge as a kind of port and picked the name Bridgeport when he asked for a town charter on 15 acres he owned. Another story says the place was Bridge Fort, for two early forts, until a mapmaker wrote it wrong.
  • Governor Johnson's OakdaleJoseph Johnson moved to Bridgeport in 1801 and went on to serve as a U.S. representative and as governor of Virginia. His house, Oakdale, was built for him in 1818, and around 1840 it was remodeled in the Italianate style. Johnson died in Bridgeport in 1877 and is buried in Bridgeport Cemetery. The Governor Joseph Johnson House joined the National Register in 1987.
  • 24,000 lamp chimneys a dayFounded in 1904, the Bridgeport Lamp Chimney Company was making about 24,000 lamp chimneys every day at its glass plant by 1923. In 1924 the Concrete Steel Bridge Company and Frank Duff McEnteer completed a bowstring concrete arch bridge so workers could push handcarts over Simpson Creek between the plant and a warehouse. That bridge joined the National Register in 1997. The Master Glass Company later made marbles on the property until 1973.
  • Raided on April 30, 1863Bridgeport's people were split between the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War. On April 30, 1863, during the Jones-Imboden Raid, Confederate general William E. Jones took a company of Union soldiers prisoner near town. His men also seized railroad workers, burned bridges and looted stores before moving on.
  • A church from about 1770John Sutton founded Simpson Creek Baptist Church around 1770, making it one of the first two Baptist churches west of the mountains that are still active. Its old brick church graveyard, dating to 1770, became the oldest part of Bridgeport Cemetery when the city combined three burial grounds in 1939. The graves of 17 known Revolutionary War veterans lie there.

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Names on the Bridgeport map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks5

  • Cook Mine
  • Courtright
  • Maple Lake
  • McAlpin
  • Ryanville

Streets and roads117

  • West Main Street
  • East Main Street
  • Saltwell Road
  • Benedum Drive
  • Frum Road
  • Hill Street
  • Ridgeway Drive
  • Worthington Drive
  • Cedar Lane
  • Locust Drive
  • Easy Street
  • Johnson Avenue
  • Barnett Run Road
  • County Route 26
  • Abia Martin Drive
  • Medical Park Drive
  • Pennsylvania Avenue
  • Platinum Drive
  • Lodgeville Road
  • County Route 24
  • Lawman Avenue
  • Stout Street
  • Airport Road
  • Clubview Drive
  • Sherwood Road
  • Pine Lane Drive
  • Crestview Terrace
  • James Street
  • Farm Road
  • Ashmore Drive
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  • Overlook Drive
  • Garden Circle
  • Grand Avenue
  • Kingston Drive
  • Willis Avenue
  • Dogwood Road
  • Valley Drive
  • West Philadelphia Avenue
  • Natalie Drive
  • Corpening Drive
  • Emerald Drive
  • Thompson Drive
  • Lauren Drive
  • Hall Street
  • Windsor Drive
  • Broadway Avenue
  • Parkview Drive
  • Village Drive
  • Brightridge Drive
  • Woodland Drive
  • Long Street
  • Water Street
  • Genesis Boulevard
  • Newton Avenue
  • Rebecca Road
  • Glen Avenue
  • Faris Avenue
  • First Street
  • Foley Avenue
  • Davis Street
  • Third Street
  • Ross Street
  • Elm Drive
  • Blackwell Street
  • Brierciff Road
  • Briarwood Road
  • Saltwell To Barnetts Run
  • Bridgeport-Bushy Fork
  • Carriage Lane
  • Heritage Road
  • Allison Avenue
  • East Olive Street
  • Hart Road
  • Conifer Drive
  • Stonebridge Drive
  • Westwood Avenue
  • Garnet Way
  • Mulberry Lane
  • West Olive Street
  • Willow Lane
  • Oxford Court
  • Ashford Drive
  • Twin Oaks Drive
  • Heliport Loop Road
  • Ritter Street
  • Oakview Drive
  • Scott Street
  • Del Dew Drive
  • Willis Street
  • Kelly Drive
  • Late Avenue
  • Oak Lane
  • New Street
  • North Center Street
  • Sassafras Way
  • Vista Drive
  • Ventura Drive
  • Lindale Street
  • Oakdale Avenue
  • Poplar Street
  • Blakes Place
  • Berkshire Circle
  • Millbrook Road
  • Dunkin Avenue
  • Ashmor
  • Ashbrooke Court
  • Front Street
  • Kemberry Drive
  • Williams Avenue
  • Meadow Lane
  • Salisbury Circle
  • Lee Ann Lane
  • Geneva Street
  • Mesa Drive
  • Green Acres Drive
  • Bancroft Court
  • Joy Lane

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