Goddard in New Mexico

[Robert Norton]

Well, not really. The land that would later become the White Sands Proving
Grounds was still private ranch land when Goddard was firing his rockets
near Roswell which is about 70 miles to the northeast of White Sands and on
the other side of a mountain range. 

From: "Terrance F. Flaherty" <Lycidas at worldnet.att.net> posted:

The world's first liquid fuel rocket was built by the
American Robert Hutchings Goddard . His work was largely
ignored by the American government at first. Later, he and
his team moved to the White Sands Proving Grounds near
Roswell, New Mexico for test firing of their rockets.