Webb Memorial State Park

The Webb Memorial State Park is a designated as a state park reserve on a peninsula in the Hingham Bay of Boston Harbor in the state of Massachusetts in the United States. The park is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR ) and is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston.

The reserve consists of three contiguous drumlins and an area of ​​flat marshland. Although it is not an island, the area belongs to the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area.

In the 1860s, the peninsula belonged to the premises of a fertilizer factory and was used for the disposal of industrial waste. In the 1950s there were there, the rocket launching sites of the Project Nike, while the associated launch control and radar systems were based on Spinnaker Iceland on the other side of the bay. The missile base was taken out of service in 1974 and the peninsula in 1977 handed over to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which began with the conversion into a State Park immediately. In 1980 the reserve was finally opened.