The Hercules Powder Company Camp No. 39 was established on this site in September 1946 as an eighty acre tract with sixty to seventy company-built prefabricated homes rented to employees for four dollars per room per month, although some employees lived off site. Once the largest employer in Zephyrhills, Hercules had 150 people at any time and maintained a commissary and a baseball team. Farmers and ranchers within a thirty-five mile radius contracted with Hercules to remove pine stumps, which were shipped by rail to Brunswick, Georgia, where they were processed into naval stores, mainly rosin, turpentine, and pine oil, as well as byproducts used in paper, paints, varnishes, adhesives, asphalt emulsions, gun powder, and dynamite. Hercules Incorporated, based in Wilmington, Delaware, operated in the Zephyrhills area for nearly forty years, and this county park and nearby Zephyrhills High School and Woodland Elementary School were later built on the camp site.