A History of the Rowayton Waterfront: Roton Point, Bell Island & the Norwalk Shoreline (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781540219992)

Welcome to Rowayton, a vibrant community nestled on the shores of Long Island Sound and encompassed by the city of Norwalk, Connecticut. Great steamships once delivered thousands of visitors daily to Roton Point to enjoy one of the premier amusement parks on the eastern seaboard. Roton Point was also home to the nation's oldest continuously operated multi-hull racing club and was the birthplace of the winged sail design for C-class catamarans. In this collection of vignettes, rumrunners, a missing two-hundred-foot steamship, a national scandal and the notorious "Long Island Express" hurricane of 1938 that almost destroyed Roton Point all introduce readers to a grand time in New England history.

Author: Karen Jewell
ISBN-10: 1540219992
ISBN-13: 9781540219992
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2010
Pages: 130
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d