A history of the Rowayton waterfront Roton Point, Bell Island & the Norwalk shoreline
(2010)

Nonfiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : The History Press : Made available through hoopla, 2010
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781614231271 (electronic bk.) MWT11509880, 1614231273 (electronic bk.) 11509880
LANGUAGE
English
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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

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