Goddard Rocket Launching Site - Auburn - Massachusetts Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard was a professor of physics at Clark University in Worcester, MA and the father of modern rocketry. In 1926, Goddard built and launched the first rocket using liquid fuel. The achievement is so significant that NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland was named in his honor.

On the ninth hole of the Pakachoag Golf Course there is a small parcel of land set aside as Pakachoag Park. On this spot there is a park sign, a tablet declaring Pakachoag Hill a Registered National Historic Landmark and a monument that commemorates Robert H. Goddard and the launch of the first liquid propellant rocket.

The tablet is mounted on a rock and is inscribed:

Pakachoag Hill
Goddard Rocket Launching Site

has been designated a

Registered National
Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the
Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935
this site possesses exceptional value
in commemorating or illustrating
the history of the United States

U.S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1966

The monument to Robert H. Goddard is inscribed:

On March 16,1926

Dr. Robert H. Goddard

Launched

The worlds first
liquid propellant
rocket

from a point
1000 feet S.S.E.
of this tablet
on the property of
the Asa M. Ward family
Erected by the

American Rocket Society

July 13, 1960
in recognition of this
significant achievement
in the
evolution of astronautics

Agency Responsible for Placement: Other (Place below) Agency Responsible for Placement (if not in list above): American Rocket Society, U.S. Department of the Interior Year Placed: 1960, 1966 County: Worcester City/Town Name: Auburn Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]

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