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Long before the resorts and the regattas, this was the country of the coastal Algonquian people of the Norwalk shore, who fished the coves and river mouths and gathered shellfish along the Sound — and who left the village its name: Rowayton, worn through spellings like Roaton and Rhoeton on the old deeds. The Five Mile River, the tidal inlet that still defines the place, carried their canoes before it carried anything else.
What's with Roton Point? On the point just west of the village, where the land runs out into Long Island Sound, there once stood one of the great shore resorts of the region. From the 1880s into the years around the Second World War, Roton Point drew summer crowds by steamboat and trolley to a beach, a carousel, a roller coaster, and a grand dance pavilion — a Coney Island of the Connecticut shore. Most of it is gone now, the grounds long since a private association, but in its day Roton Point is how the whole country first learned to spend a summer Sunday in Rowayton.
Why People Visit Rowayton
Rowayton offers the Connecticut shore at its most relaxed and characterful — sailing, art, and quiet beaches in a village that has kept its scale and its salt-water soul. Visitors come for the harbor and the shore parks and stay for the unhurried, distilled village that Norwalk keeps at its edge.
