September 5th, 1879 W L Gray sold his interest in the Bridgeport store of Buchanan & Co to J M Buchanan . Warner Bros rented the upper...

In November 1909 William E Ridgley and Al Noonan established the Bridgeport Auto Company in a 20 x 40 ft building at 214 Washington...

Brian Lumber Company was founded in Sumner Illinois in 1885 by John Brian.  It was first located on the south side of the railroad tracks...

Lathrop’s Feed store, 421 E Olive Street Bridgeport, was one of Bridgeport’s oldest businesses. In the early oil field days, the business...

The following was compiled from issues of the Vincennes Sun Commercial, published on September 24, 25 and 30th 1921. Roy E. Laughlin, a...

Dr. John Frank Schrader was the son of Mr. and Mrs . Aaron Schrader, who were farmers. He was born in Lukin Township on November 7,...

These maps show what Bridgeport looked like in 1912.

“The days are getting shorter.”  This was the last sentence Ellis “Curley” Johnson of Bridgeport said to his wife Frances before he died...