Gilbertsville, KY

Gilbertsville is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Marshall County, Kentucky, United States. The 2020 census counted 332 residents. Gilbertsville is the closest village to the Kentucky Dam. The town was relocated to its present site when Kentucky Dam and Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park replaced the former site. Arts and Crafts Festival—Every Memorial Day Weekend the festival is located at the Old Beach Area and features handcrafted items by artists from Kentucky and neighboring states. Earth Day Celebration—Located at the Kentucky Dam Village Resort, the festival features activities to celebrate Earth Day. Gilbertsville's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Kentucky setting.

The local scoop is how Gilbertsville's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The original town of Gilbertsville was founded in 1871 near the Tennessee River as "Clear Pond", named for a nearby lake. The village thrived because besides the fertile bottomland, it afforded the combination of river access for transportation and fishing, and railroad transportation via the Illinois Central Railroad. Gilbertsville is in northern Marshall County, on the south side of the valley of the Tennessee River.