Originally called Robinsons Crossing, it was renamed Bridgeport when a bridge was built across the Van Duzen River in 1875.

To rescue his mother Mary from hostility to Brown in Red Bluff, in 1870 he sold his ranch near Corning, California, and bought one near Bridgeville.

Los Angeles-based entertainment manager and college student Daniel Thomas La Paille, 25, purchased the town on August 3, 2006 from Krall.

La Paille paid $1.25 million, the money coming from his own entertainment management work as well as from his mother and grandmother.

"[5] According to the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, Daniel La Paille committed suicide on November 9, 2006.

[5][7] In June 2013, Steve Farzam, the COO of the Shore Hotel in Santa Monica, California, entrepreneur, and serial fraudster, offered to purchase Bridgeville for $900,000 from Daniel La Paille's mother.

Steve Farzam had his development team visit the town, where they met with the County Board of Supervisors.