Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Bridgeport, PA

Bridgeport is a borough in Montgomery County on the Schuylkill River, directly across the river from Norristown, the county seat.

Bridgeport got its name from the bridge to Norristown and the Schuylkill Canal "port" — the canal section was built on Bridgeport's bank in 1816 after Norristown's residents rejected building it on theirs.

A wooden bridge was built across the Schuylkill River to DeKalb Street in Norristown in 1830, and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad reached Bridgeport in 1839.

Bridgeport was incorporated as a borough in 1851, when it had about 572 residents and just 96 homes had been counted two years earlier.

In 1777, during the Revolutionary War, General George Washington and the Continental Army passed through Bridgeport on their way to their winter encampment at Valley Forge, about 6 miles to the west.

Bridgeport's old-time industries included paper and flour mills, cotton and woolen mills, steel works and brickyards, and it became a chief textile center for the area.

The Bridgeport Bridge, a curving single-track Philadelphia & Western Railway bridge over the Schuylkill River built in 1912, is documented in the Historic American Engineering Record.

The population of Bridgeport was 5,015 at the 2020 census.

At the 2000 census, Bridgeport had 4,371 residents in 1,983 households, all within a borough of about 0.8 square miles.