Calf Pasture Beach in Norwalk, Connecticut, began as seventeenth-century colonial grazing land and became a notable Revolutionary War landing site when British forces under William Tryon came ashore there on July 10, 1779, before the burning of Norwalk the next day. In the early twentieth century it was transformed into a city park, with land acquired and donated between 1917 and 1922 and the park opening in 1924. Later improvements, including Depression-era construction and post-hurricane rebuilding, helped shape a major public waterfront. Together with Shady Beach Park and Taylor Farm Park, it remains one of Norwalk’s principal recreation and civic gathering places.