[2] A sandspit landform, the Point serves as a fortress, protecting the Charles Wheeler Salt Marsh (WMA), a tidal wetland and habitat to 315 different species of waterfowl, shorebirds, and waders.

[7] Milford Point is also one of ten land units that make up the Stewart B. McKinney Wildlife Refuge.

[8] Prior to colonization, this area was the site of a Native American village called Poconock.

[9][10] By 1752, it was a destination for fishing and oystering, in which oystermen would spend their winters living in small huts covered in seaweed.

[12] The hotel and property was given to the state of Connecticut in the 1930s, and it became a Coast Guard reconnaissance center during WWII.