Gilboa Museum - Gilboa, NY
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N 42° 24.017 W 074° 27.054
18T E 545189 N 4694366
The Fossils are Devonian tree fossils. The world's oldest forest is the Gilboa Forest. No fee is mentioned on the website. They are only open Saturday and Sunday afternoons during the summer. There are some fossils outside.
Waymark Code: WMZ0H7
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 08/21/2018
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Fossils were found during dam reconstruction in 2010. Many fossils were found in 1920 during the original construction of Gilboa Dam. The original fossil was found in 1850 in a creek.
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"The small town of Gilboa, New York in southern Schoharie County, is home to the Gilboa Fossils. 380 million years ago, during the Devonian Period in the Geologic Time Scale, Gilboa was located on the shore of the gigantic Devonian Sea...No one knew the fossils existed, until 1850, when an amateur naturalist found a sandstone cast of a portion of a Devonian-age tree trunk in the Schoharie Creek near Gilboa after a huge flood...This was the first documented discovery of fossil tree stumps in North America...In 1920, after the City of New York claimed the village of Gilboa to build the Gilboa Dam and the Schoharie Reservoir, the New York State Museum ordered a full-scale search for these fossils."
Our hours are: 12:00pm to 4:30pm, Saturdays & Sundays. We will be open starting Memorial Day Weekend May 26 to Columbus Day Weekend October 7, 2018.
122 Stryker Rd, Gilboa, NY 12076
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