The Throop Pharmacy Museum is an authentic restoration of the Throop Drugstore, which was located in Schoharie, New York, approximately forty miles southwest of Albany. The store was established in 1800 by Jabez W. Throop and remained in the same location, managed by the Throop family, for the next 136 years. Besides being the store's proprietor, Jabez was the town's first postmaster, a bank president, an educator and a founder of the town's public water system. In 1845 Jabez was succeeded at the store by his son, Origen B. Throop. Origen died in a train accident leaving the store to his son, Charles M. Throop, who operated it from 1883 to 1930. The last proprietor of the store was Charles W. Grant, a grandson, who managed the pharmacy from 1930 to 1936. In 1938 the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences acquired the Throop Drugstore as a historical museum. It was moved to the College in its entirety where it was carefully reconstructed using the original shelves, counters and wooden drawers that stored the herbs and crude drugs. Highlights of the collection include a wooden safe studded with iron knobs, show globes, an extensive collection of apothecary bottles and jars, advertisement posters, spittoons and the shotgun used to protect the store. There are also pill machines, grinders for crude drugs, prescription books and various porcelain, wooden and metal mortars and pestles. Visiting the reconstructed Throop Pharmacy provides an opportunity to visualize life more than a century ago. Various prescription and business records kept by meticulous shopkeepers give a glimpse of life in a small rural area of upstate New York.