Bridgeport, Connecticut’s largest city, is known as "The Park City" was the city that Barnum built. Phineas Taylor Barnum, or P.T. Barnum, was the showman turned mayor who made this port city into a major manufacturing center during the early 19th century. By the time his term ended, Bridgeport was well known throughout the United States and the world. Barnum was involved in every aspect of the everyday life of the city. In particular, he spent a lot of his energy improving the steamboat industry since Bridgeport was already an important hub of transportation. <br> In 1883 Barnum went to England to buy an enormous elephant called “Jumbo” for his circus. However P.T. Barnum's star attraction would be Charles S. Stratton, "General Tom Thumb"--who was born in Bridgeport. The Barnum Museum exhibits colorful circus memorabilia and celebrates the creator of the Greatest Show on Earth. Barnum laid out parks and roads and even designed Mountain Grove Cemetery where he is buried. The much-publicized socialist mayor Jasper McLevy was elected here in 1933 to begin a 24-year administration. Some of his achievements included bringing in Elias Howe and his Singer sewing machines, and building and donating The Barnum Museum to the city. Bridgeport was also the home of the original Frisbee Pie whose plate is now better known than the pie it contained. <br> Today the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company provides daily ferry service between Bridgeport and Port Jefferson, Long Island from their new terminal and docking facility and major transportation hub. Harbor Yard, the new home of the popular Bridgeport Bluefish Professional Baseball team – now the most successful minor league team in the USA and home field for Sacred Heart University. Other Bridgeport attractions include the Beardsley Zoo, which has a proud history of over 75 years as Connecticut’s only zoo. Captain’s Cove Seaport, home to the HMS Rose, The world's largest active wooden sailing vessel a full-rigged ship, a replica of an 18th century Royal Navy frigate that cruised the American coast during the American Revolution. The Discovery Museum, Housatonic Museum of Art, Klein Memorial Auditorium, Shoreline Star Greyhound Park and Entertainment Complex, Downtown Cabaret Theater, and Polka Dot Playhouse. Bridgeport Harbor Lighthouse and the Greater Bridgeport Symphony Youth Orchestras. <br> The city, the most populous in the state, is a port on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Pequonnock River. Black Rock Harbor is a deep, protected harbor that developed as a trade port and shipbuilding center in the 18th century. Black Rock was once part of Fairfield, but now is a neighborhood of the city of Bridgeport. Settled in 1639, it was first known as Newfield and later as Stratfield. In 1800 it was incorporated as a borough and named Bridgeport for the first drawbridge over the river. <br> Bridgeport's advantageous geographic location, situated around an excellent harbor on the Long Island Sound, encouraged the early settlers to shift from agrarian to mercantile and manufacturing pursuits. It grew from a whaling center into an industrial center after the opening of the railroad in 1840. In the 19th century Bridgeport's industries produced carriages, brass and cast-iron fittings, sewing machines, tools, saddlery, and ammunition. The first electric light socket with a pull chain was patented by Harvey Hubbell of Bridgeport, CT in 1896. This design is still in use. By the 1930s the community had almost 500 manufacturing firms. In the late 20th century Bridgeport remained a manufacturing center, producing electrical and transportation equipment, plastics, and machine tools however the loss of thousands of manufacturing jobs left many unemployed. Bridgeport also had problems with unemployment, pollution, drugs, and crime in its inner-city neighborhoods.