Seaside Park Bridgeport CT Connecticut Tour
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Seaside Park History
Summertime is high season for Seaside Park; Bridgeport's premiere waterside destination. Seaside is open daily from 8 AM - Dusk (current hours). Parks Stickers are required to access the park by car. Cyclists can enjoy a dedicated cycling path. For more information on parks stickers look here: Parks Stickers
Buses entering Seaside need a bus permit: more details. Permits can be purchased in advance at the parks office, or at the park checkpoints.
With its 325 acres of lush lawns, shady glades and sports fields rolling toward Long Island Sound, Seaside Park is a park without peer on the Eastern Seaboard. Visitors are delighted by the beaches, surf and sunshine along three miles of sparkling coastline. The park was laid out just after the Civil War by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, whose other efforts include Manhattan's Central Park and Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Their 19th century landscapes have proved timeless as they entice each new generation of park-goers.
At the western end of the park is Fayerweather Island. Walkers can visit this natural wildlife preserve by crossing the breakwater rocks. The island's lighthouse guided navigators into Black Rock Harbor from 1823 to 1932.
Bridgeport's most famous resident, the 19th century circus impresario P.T. Barnum is largely responsible for the development of the park. Once pasture land, wood lots and salt marshes, Barnum envisioned the first marine “rural” park in the United States. He recalled the landscape of Seaside before its transformation in his autobiography:
“Up to 1865 the shore of Bridgeport west of the public wharves, and washed by the water of Long Island Sound, was inaccessible to carriages or even to the horsemen, and almost impossible for pedestrians. The shore edge was in fact strewn with rocks and boulders, which made it like “JORDAN” in the song, and exceedingly “hard road to travel.” A narrow lane reaching down to the shore enabled parties to drive near to the water for purposes of clamming, and occasionally bathing; but it was all claimed as private property by the land proprietors, whose farm extended down to the water's edge... I was satisfied that a most lovely park might be, and ought to be, opened along the whole waterfront as far as the western boundary line of Bridgeport... I immediately began to agitate the subject in the Bridgeport papers, and also in daily conversations with such of my fellow citizens as I thought would take an earnest and immediate interest in the enterprise...”
The park took its present shape between 1865 and 1920. Before 1869 the land west of the statue of Elias Howe was under water. The area between Park and Iranistan Avenue was the first to be drained and dyked. (The Mirror Lake, also known as the Mummy Pond, is an essential part of that drainage system.) In 1878, the land between Iranistan Avenue and the former bath house took its present form. The city acquired the water-bound area that comprises the west beach and Fayerweather Island in 1911, and completed construction of a seawall in 1919 that connected to the mainland.
Barnum meant for Seaside Park to be his legacy for future generations, and the strollers, bathers, athletes, fishermen and picnickers who enjoy the park today owe a nod to his memory. In his autobiography he expressed the hope that:
“when the hand that now pens these lines is stilled forever, and thousands look... across the water to Long Island shore and over the groves and walks and drives of the beautiful grounds at their feet, it may be a source of gratification and pride to my posterity to hear the expressions of gratitude that possibly will be expressed to the memory of their ancestor who secured to all future generations the benefits and blessings of Sea-Side Park…”
I go to seaside beach every free day i get in the summer. Its clean,groomed and beautiful! Well worth the trip!
Bridgeport Standard began a series of articles urging the creation of public parks in the rapidly growing town. In 1864, citizens like Nathaniel Wheeler, P.T. Barnum, and Colonel William Noble bought and donated land along the shore to the city.
Bridgeport could be a better city. This beach is amazing, and I actually like Bridgeport. They are redeveloping it to look better. Hopefully it becomes cool again!
Agree! Love the history too. Going today to film more and take the ferry to port Jefferson. Hope it doesn’t storm too much! Thanks for watching 😊
Looks beautiful! Couldn’t go because I was visiting the State so I went to a beach north of there.
...my late mom was born in Bridgeport in October, 1917...my only recollection of it is from when I was 3 or 4 years old (ca.1953/54) when I would ride with mom & dad in our 1952 blue Dodge Coronet from Fort Lee to my grandma's house on (IIRC) Union Ave - a few blocks or so from Blessed Sacrament RC Church - I know mom lived on Carroll Ave at one time - I'm almost 73 s ythese recollections are some 68-69 years ago...
What a wonderful story Mohammed! Thank you for sharing your story with me 😊❤️
Should highlight the Sabal Palm Tree that's in front of the Eleanor N. Dana Hall in Waldemere Ave. You can see it as you drive by there. Not a huge thing but its kind of unique as there are few palm trees growing in CT that are not potted and/or taken away for winter. This one Sabal is probably the northernmost one on the east coast so its notable for that too.
Hi Xavier :) That is excellent information! I didn’t know that. Thank you VERY much! 😊
Attended University of Bridgeport in the 70s. At night security would escort you from building to building. It was not a safe place. Hopefully its gotten better but I doubt it.
I’m wondering same. Bridgeport was so crime ridden.
Thanks
Union troops from around New England would muster here before boarding trains to go south and fight the Confederates. Olmsted, who designed New York's Central Park also designed Seaside Park.
Thank you for the information! Wow didn’t know that. So much history in Bridgeport!
@@AfternooninConnecticut Thanks for your videos.
Is this true?
I grew up just a quarter of a mile down the street.
Beautiful area! 🤩
@@AfternooninConnecticut It was called Marina Village, it was the projects. Not that bad in the 70's and 80's but now it should be rubble. Look up 346 iranistan ave Bridgeport
Is there crime at this beach? I am hoping to visit soon.
I don’t know for sure. I feel safe there tho. Been taking my family there since my kids were small. It’s beautiful!
Got it. Thanks. I will visit sooner or later.
They Kicked Christ Out of His Home Town🖕😤🖕THAT'S MYEEE GOTDAMNED BEACH⚡️⚡️⚡️💯
How I crime in the area? Safe for single woman to walk by herself?
The park during the day is totally fine. I don’t go there often it I have never felt uncomfortable
Sooo dangerous!
Adding that the University was sold to the Moonies cult due to financial problems caused by the high crime in Bridgeport. Crime against students is very high.