Remembering Charles Lindbergh's stop in Central Mass.

The front page of the Sunday Telegram on this day in 1927 informed waking readers of Charles Lindbergh's nonstop flight to Paris.

The aviator's trip from New York, a journey of more than 33 hours, was the first such solo flight between the cities.

"Lindbergh Safe in Paris," blared the Telegram headline of May 22, 1927.

Two years later, readers of the Telegram, the morning paper at the time, got another dose of Lindbergh news: He had made a quick visit to Central Massachusetts.

On Sept. 15, 1929, Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, were on their way from Maine to New York when they touched down at Webster-Oxford Airport. The Telegram reported that the couple landed “in their trim little red and yellow aeromarine monoplane.”

It turns out that the plane had an oil leak that Lindbergh wanted to assess. He initially considered a landing at Worcester Airport, then in North Grafton, before heading for the airfield in South Oxford off Main Street.

The leak apparently turned out to be minor and Lindbergh fueled up before continuing on his way.

Before he took off, several townspeople converged on the airport, with word spreading about the famous visitor. With Lindbergh anxious about people touching his plane, Trooper Daniel Murphy of the Grafton barracks was summoned to keep the onlookers away.

The stop in Oxford came after the Lindberghs visited the summer home of Mrs. Lindbergh's parents in New Haven, Maine. They were bound for Roosevelt Field in New York.

On July 16, 1988, a sign was dedicated by the Oxford Historical Commission at the intersection of Marshall and Bacon streets, near the site of the former airport, marking the “landing site of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh September 15, 1929.”

Meantime, the front page of the Telegram May 22, 1927, noted that a newborn at Hahnemann Hospital in Worcester was named for the aviator. Charles Lindbergh Erickson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Erickson of Everard Street, arrived May 21, the same day Charles Lindbergh arrived in Paris, the paper reported.

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