When you drive through Gilboa today, you can't help but think,
what a teeny tiny town. Well, Gilboa was once a
much bigger town. During the years of 1919 to 1927
New York City built a huge reservoir for the city's water supply.
Four hundred thirty buildings were destroyed and
then submerged. Most of Gilboa was lost under
water. If you would like to see postcards of the
dam or the construction of the dam you will need to go to my
Gilboa
Dam page. Gilboa is also world famous because
of the fossil tree stumps that were discovered while building the
dam. The fossil trees were uncovered in a quarry in
the early 1920s, during the construction of the Schoharie
Reservoir. These fossils are 370 million years old.
They represent the oldest trees ever found in the
world. I've put all the Devasego
Falls cards on their own site.
