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On this site stood the original office of the Bridgeport Chronicle-Union newspaper.
The Bridgeport Union Newspaper was established in 1880 by brothers Robert and Alex Folger and was printed in a building on School Street at Bryant, where the County Building is now located. The paper had been printed in Bodie between 1878-80 as the Bodie Chronicle. In 1881 it became the Bridgeport Chronicle-Union, published in town until the early 1950's. Many of the issues are available for viewing at the Mono County Museum.
The first print of the Bridgeport paper appeared on May 15, 1880.
A Historical plaque marks the site of a building that housed a serious of local newspaper dating back to 1880. The building housed the first paper called The Bodie Chronicle Union which later became the Chronicle Union, then the Bridgeport Chronicle-Union, and finally the Review Herald, which is still published today by Chalfant Press in Mammoth, CA.
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