Established in 2017 for the citizens of Gouldsboro through the generosity of one of its own, Gouldsboro Town Park stands within a peninsula of thirty thousand acres of granite, heath and shallow soil, two mountains and two ponds. Wabanaki communities lived for centuries on a point in West Gouldsboro before English settlers came for logging, a little farming, and then fishing and shipbuilding. Frontier settlements became villages with distinctive character and pride, including Birch Harbor, Corea, Gouldsboro Point, West Bay, Prospect Harbor, South Gouldsboro, West Gouldsboro, Ashville, Bunkers Harbor, and Wonsqueak Harbor, while Winter Harbor became its own town in 1895. Early Gouldsboro depended on oxen to haul timber for trade with Boston, and later to move rocks and plow fields, especially in the northern villages from Ashville to Gouldsboro Point. Local timber, the town's first market commodity, was soon crafted at West Bay and West Gouldsboro into sloops and schooners that fished cod in the 1800s, and those skills later improved the lobster fleets. In the peninsula's inlets, weirs and seine nets caught once-abundant herring for factories and lobster fleets, and for more than a century seafood brought ashore was processed in the canning factories of South Gouldsboro and Prospect Harbor through the sustained labor of the town's women. Lobstering has remained a mainstay on the peninsula for over a century, and in most harbors fishermen can still be seen standing to row to the wharf in the long-practiced way. The peninsula's notable architecture includes lighthouses at Prospect Harbor and Winter Harbor and a 1907 Tudor Revival library in West Gouldsboro designed by Fred L. Savage and listed on the National Register. Gouldsboro's maritime heritage also includes the 1866 rescue by Captain Rufus Allen of the crew of the sinking S.S. Queen Victoria aboard the Schooner Ponfret, after which the ship's bell was given to him and the town and later gained added significance in Canada as that vessel's famous Liberty Bell. Summer visitors began staying in Gouldsboro and Winter Harbor in the 1880s, often arriving by steamship across Frenchman Bay to docks at South Gouldsboro in the early 1900s.