John Gould hammered iron and steel here for 65 years. It is said that, "His wrist was so strong that in his eighties he could hold a sledge hammer at arm's length and lower it onto his forehead.”

In 1850 John Porter built a one-story carriage house here for Captain William Munday. It was later used as a carpenter shop by George Towne, right up until he died in 1882. Twenty-five years later—in 1907—John Gould bought the place, and in 1915 built this blacksmith shop. Here he hammered until 1980. There are folks in town who still remember him from the school field trips that used to bring them here.

Dan Pallotta bought the place in 2020—after local architect Ben Nutter had done a major renovation on it in 1996—and turned it into GOODFOLK in 2024. It’s the ultimate maker space, and we hope John, George and Cap’m Munday will be enjoying the music we make here from wherever their ghosts roam out there in the ether. (Or maybe right here in the shop still).