Gilboa Historical Society Facilities

The Gilboa Museum 

Originally Gilboa’s Town Hall since the late 1920s until the flood of 1996. The town built a new town hall opposite the reservoir access, relocated the earlier building from Old Stryker Road onto higher ground behind the highway department, and leased it to the Gilboa Historical Society for use as a museum.   

The displays were heavily weighted (sic) toward natural history: fossils from the Devonian period and later times. The cultural collection was also being developed, in this somewhat cramped space. 

Nicholas J. Juried History Center 

In 2014, our benefactor Nick Juried enabled us build an addition that would double our display space. We now had a new building with focus on permanent display areas for the Gilboa Valley/Village, the Schoharie Reservoir, and one-room schoolhouses; and with rotating displays on lifestyles and neighborhoods of our  Catskills home.

The Gilboa Museum and the Juried History Center became 2 equal parts of a dynamic learning center for natural and cultural history

Dorothy Cox Juried Pavilion

Visitors come to the region for the environment and its outdoor activities. Recognizing this, the GHS was blessed again with a pavilion to host larger outdoor events (Gilboa Fest, the GHS Ice Cream Social, the Psychic Fair) and to make the Dorothy Cox Juried Pavilion also available for public use with permission. 

Equipment Shed

A small shed for the display of early farm equipment and tools.

Location

The complex is located at 122 Stryker Road, Gilboa, NY 12076.