Bruce Brook
Bruce Brook is a stream in Connecticut, New England. Bruce Brook is situated nearby to the hamlet Mill Hill, as well as near Newfield.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pleasure Beach and Igor I Sikorsky Memorial Airport.
Pleasure Beach
Beach
Pleasure Beach is the Bridgeport portion of a Connecticut barrier beach that extends 2.5 miles westerly from Point No Point. Prior to June, 2014, when Pleasure Beach re-opened, the area was Connecticut's largest and most recent ghost town after it was abandoned in the late 1990s due to a fire on the bridge connecting it to the mainland.
Igor I Sikorsky Memorial Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport is a public airport in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, owned by the city of Bridgeport. It is three miles southeast of downtown, in the town of Stratford. Igor I Sikorsky Memorial Airport is situated 1½ miles east of Bruce Brook.
Tongue Point Light
Lighthouse
Tongue Point Light Lighthouse, also known as Bridgeport Breakwater or Bug Light, is a lighthouse on the west side of the Bridgeport Harbor entrance, in the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut in the United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gateway Village Historic District and Seaside Village Historic District.
Gateway Village Historic District
Neighborhood
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Gateway Village Historic District encompasses a World War I-era housing project on the east side of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Centered on Alanson Road, the project was developed in the later years of the war to provide emergency housing for workers in the city's munitions factories. Gateway Village Historic District is situated 1½ miles north of Bruce Brook.
Seaside Village Historic District
Neighborhood
Photo: Paul Boucher, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Historic Seaside Village Co-operative encompasses a primarily residential area in the South End of Bridgeport, Connecticut. It is bounded on the east by Iranistan Avenue, the north by South Avenue, the south by Forest Court and by the west by Alsace Street. Seaside Village Historic District is situated 1½ miles west of Bruce Brook.
Marina Park Historic District
Neighborhood
The Marina Park Historic District encompasses the finest collection of high-style late 19th-century residential architecture in the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Marina Park Historic District is situated 2 miles west of Bruce Brook.
Bruce Brook
- Type: Stream
- Also known as: “Bruce Creek”, “Bruce’s Creek”, “Bruces Brook”, “Johnson Creek”, “Knees-And-Paws Creek”, “Neesingpaws Creek”, “Nesingpaws Creek”, “Nesumpaw’s Creek”, and “Nesumpaws Creek”
- Category: body of water
- Location: Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.1576° or 41° 9′ 27″ northLongitude
-73.15705° or 73° 9′ 25″ westOpen location code
87H85R5V+25GeoNames ID
5282975
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