Bridgeport is a city in Jackson County, Alabama, United States. At the grow old of 2010 census the population was 2,418, down from 2,728 in 2000. Bridgeport is included in the Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton, TN-GA-AL Combined Statistical Area.

Bridgeport developed after the 1840s, when European Americans traditional a riverboat landing here along the Tennessee River. This landing was a place for local farmers to trade their crops for extra goods. Within a few years, a small hamlet known as “Jonesville” had developed something like the landing, and included a trading post, gristmill, warehouses, and several saloons. The Jonesville declare office opened in 1852.

Fluctuating river levels made riverboat trade unreliable, and area merchants began anxiety for railroad right of entry in the late 1840s. The first rail line reached Jonesville in 1852. A railroad bridge beyond the Tennessee River was completed in 1854, connecting the city gone Chattanooga, Tennessee. In tribute of this accomplishment, the publicize of the city was untouched to “Bridgeport.” Construction of a second rail parentage connecting Bridgeport subsequent to Jasper, Tennessee, to the north, began in 1860, but was not completed until after the Civil War.

Because of its location on both a rail pedigree and the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic site during the Civil War. The rail bridge at Bridgeport was in the middle of those targeted by the East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy in November 1861. Although this try failed, the bridge would be burned twice during the course of the war.