Bridgeport

by Lehman, Eric D.

• ISBN13: 9781596296169
• ISBN10: 159629616X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-30
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

In The Late Nineteenth Century, P.T. Barnum was known worldwide for his traveling circus, but to the city of Bridgeport he meant much more. The city's mayor and benefactor, Barnum was also a mastermind at urban planning. Thus, amid Bridgeport's growing industrial factories, orchestras played from the bandstand at Seaside Park and bucolic hills surrounded Bunnell's Pond. In this collection of narratives, Eric D. Lehman captures the city's natural beauty and richly eccentric history. From the brave women of the Black Rock Lighthouse to war heroes of "the nation's arsenal," from "the tiniest general," Tom Thumb, to the tragic death of Jumbo the elephant, these are the best stories from Connecticut's "Park City." Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 7
A World in Miniature	p. 10
Stitching History	p. 22
Lincoln's First Fried Oyster	p. 30
With Her Eyes to the Sea	p. 39
When Animals Roamed the Streets	p. 47
The Playthings of Possibility	p. 58
Becoming Park City	p. 68
A Tale of Two Inventors	p. 77
Textbooks and Toothaches	p. 86
Arsenal of a Nation	p. 95
The Pogo Years	p. 105
Tragedy and Rebirth	p. 113
Bibliography	p. 119
About the Author	p. 127
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