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Cahaba Homestead Heritage Foundation, Inc.
TRUSSVILLE – Trussville’s third annual Heritage Days event will take place April 1-6, 2025, to celebrate and showcase Trussville’s historic district.
The weeklong Heritage Days, organized by the Cahaba Homestead Heritage Foundation, will feature Alabama artists painting the historic area, the Gee’s Bend Quilters, music at The Gateway – Trussville Entertainment District, history, culture, and a home tour.
Most events are free to the public, including a Friday, April 4 concert at the Trussville Entertainment District. Heritage Days will kick off Tuesday, April 1 with the Alabama Plein Air Artists painting scenes across the Cahaba Project neighborhood. The artists will continue this throughout the week.
The Gee’s Bend Quilters of Alabama, who share a unique Great Depression origin with the Cahaba Project, will be welcomed to Trussville on Thursday, April 3 at 6 p.m. This will be a free meet and greet event with China Pettway and Mary Ann Pettway at the Trussville Public Library. Registration can be completed here.
The Quilters will host a two-day quilting workshop Friday, April 4 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, April 5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Trussville Public Library. This year, workshop participants can choose to attend Friday only, Saturday only, or both Friday and Saturday. A ticket for this event covers one day of a quilting workshop – Friday, April 4 or Saturday, April 5. Attendees are welcome to purchase a ticket for each day to have a two-day workshop experience. Tickets are $50 per workshop day. Tickets for Friday’s workshop are available here and tickets for Saturday’s workshop are available here. America’s First Federal Credit Union in Trussville is sponsoring the Gee’s Bend Quilters of Alabama event.
On Friday, April 4 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., The Gateway – Trussville Entertainment District stage will host Adam Craig, Ray Fulcher, and Jordan Walker, all country music singer/songwriters, in a music event sponsored by Trimm Design Build.
Craig has written songs recorded by Jason Aldean, Dustin Lynch, Montgomery Gentry, Parmalee, George Strait, Kane Brown, and Cody Johnson, among others. Fulcher has co-written six No. 1 songs and has had more than 25 songs recorded by Luke Combs, along with cuts by Chris Young, Zac Brown Band, Riley Green, Kameron Marlowe, and Dillon Carmichael, among others. As an artist, Fulcher has more than 30 million streams to his credit. Walker, formerly of the country music duo Walker McGuire, has had songs recorded by Combs, Johnson, Brown, Cold Swindell, Jordan Davis, Trace Adkins, and Drew Baldridge, among others.
On Sunday, April 6 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., there will be a tour of several Trussville homes. Home Tour parking and check-in booth will be at Cahaba Elementary School. Accent Limo will shuttle guests to the homes and back to parking. Tickets are $20 and are available through the Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce’s website here.
Four unique homes on the tour include an original four-room cottage; a renovated one-story and a recently renovated two-story home on the Mall; and a new home that embraces its links to the past. This event will also feature two raffle baskets to be given away, each totaling $500 worth of gift cards to local businesses. All tickets purchased for the home tour before April 5 are eligible to win the raffle baskets. Tickets may also be purchased at the home tour check-in table on April 6 at Cahaba Elementary School’s parking lot.
Heritage Days sponsors include AmFirst Credit Union, Accent Limo, Hampton Inn, Parcels Too, Ace Surfaces of Birmingham, Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce, Trussville Public Library, and Trimm Design Build.
For more information, visit http://www.cahabaheritage.org/2025-heritage-days.
The mission of the Cahaba Homestead Heritage Foundation, Inc., is to support through education, outreach and civic involvement such things that promote, perpetuate and enhance the value of the community as a historic district designated on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Cahaba Homestead Heritage Foundation, Inc. 