Which company formally announced in 1894 helped Bridgeport become a major transportation hub in the 1850's?
Bridgeport Historic District:  Founded in the 1810s as a farming community, Bridgeport became a major transportation hub with the coming of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad and Southern Railway in the 1850s, in addition to its Tennessee River port. Southern Railway (U.S.):  The railroad is the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined beginning in the 1830s, formally becoming the Southern Railway in 1894.
Southern Railway