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Roadstown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Stow Creek Township, Cumberland County, first listed as a CDP in the 2020 United States census.

The 2020 census counted just 155 residents in Roadstown, spread across 0.83 square miles.

Before the American Revolution, Roadstown was an important settlement known as Sayre's Cross-Roads or Sayre's Corners, named for Ananias Sayre, a leading citizen and county sheriff whose historic Ananias Sayre House still stands at the center of the village.

Chairmaker Maskell Ware settled in Roadstown in 1789, and the hand-made wooden chairs he produced there are now prized collector's items.

The Cohansey Baptist Church, established in 1683 and today the third-oldest Baptist church in New Jersey, relocated to Roadstown in 1802.

Roadstown's post office was established in 1803, and by 1834 the village had a tavern, two stores and 20 dwellings, with its population growing to about 200 by 1882.

Roadstown is the birthplace of Harris Flanagin (1817–1874), who went on to serve as the seventh governor of Arkansas.

Roadstown is also the birthplace of Charles Elmer Hires (1851–1937), the inventor of root beer and founder of Hires Root Beer, who was born on his family's farm outside the village on August 19, 1851.

The village sits at the intersection of County Routes 620 and 626, about three miles southwest of Shiloh, and local students attend Cumberland Regional High School.