Editing Gilboa, Ohio (section)

==History==
Gilboa was laid out in 1837.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofputnamc01kind#page/207/mode/2up | title=History of Putnam County, Ohio : its peoples, industries, and institutions | publisher=B.F. Bowen | author=Kinder, George D. | year=1915 | pages=117}}</ref> The village was incorporated in 1848.<ref>{{cite book|title=Acts of the State of Ohio|url=https://archive.org/details/actsstateohio69statgoog|year=1848|publisher=N. Willis, printer to the state|page=[https://archive.org/details/actsstateohio69statgoog/page/n322 167]}}</ref> A post office was established at Gilboa in 1843, and remained in operation until 1985.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=OH&county=Putnam |title=Putnam County |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |accessdate=December 14, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222104922/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=OH&county=Putnam |archivedate=December 22, 2015 }}</ref>

On August 6, 1852, a [[cholera]] [[epidemic]] struck Gilboa. The start of the epidemic was traced to a large damp cellar that had been used to store trash and decomposing waste.<ref name="Cholera">{{cite book|title=Transactions of the American Medical Association Volume 7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qPBXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA349|year=1854|publisher=Association|page=349}}</ref> The epidemic lasted until August 21 and killed 13 Gilboa residents<ref name="Cholera"/> including one of the two doctors that had not fled. Out of the estimated 600 population, all but 40 fled including four of Gilboa's six doctors.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

Artist and muralist [[Oscar Velasquez]] (1944-2021) was a long time Gilboa resident.<ref>{{cite news |title=Artist working on new mural in Pandora |url=https://www.hometownstations.com/news/artist-working-on-new-mural-in-pandora/article_b6df5431-df25-5dda-8e94-c146031d28fa.html |access-date=23 December 2024 |publisher=WLIO |date=24 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Oscar Velasquez |url=https://thecourier.com/news/343844/oscar-velasquez/ |access-date=23 December 2024 |work=The Courier |publisher=The Courier |date=20 September 2021}}</ref> He painted more than 50 murals nationally and internationally.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Peterson |first1=Erica |title=Historic mural is first step toward revitalizing downtown Independence |url=https://www.scriptype.com/2019/06/19/historic-mural-is-first-step-toward-revitalizing-downtown-independence/ |access-date=23 December 2024 |work=Indepepdence Today |publisher=ScripType Publishing Inc. |date=19 June 2019}}</ref>