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Trussville, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Jefferson. Associated ZIP codes: 35173.
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An Alabama man has been charged with setting fire to a Mississippi police department that has faced protests in the months since an officer fatally shot a 1-...
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Trussville is in Jefferson County, Alabama.
Region: North Alabama
35173
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An Alabama man has been charged with setting fire to a Mississippi police department that has faced protests in the months since an officer fatally shot a 1-...
Alabama Marine Resources officials say several years of poor water conditions have contributed to a significant decline in oyster numbers. Because of the dec...
Trussville, on the Cahaba River northeast of Birmingham, takes its name from Warren Truss, a North Carolinian who came with his brothers and built a gristmill on the river in 1821. It remained a farming community until after the Civil War. On April 20, 1865, a detachment of Wilson's Raiders under Brigadier General John T. Croxton burned the stone warehouse of Captain Thomas Truss and Marcus Worthington, where the Confederate government stored meat, grain and clothing collected as a war tax. The Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad was later built through town, and by 1886 a blast furnace stood where Cahaba Elementary School is now. Trussville appeared as incorporated in the 1890 and 1900 censuses, then dropped off until it reincorporated in 1947.
Much of the town's growth came from the Cahaba Project, built in the 1930s by the Resettlement Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. First planned by Alabama Polytechnic Institute staff as farmsteads, it was moved to Trussville so residents could commute to Birmingham. About 60 existing houses were torn down; white residents were moved to Roper Hill and cottages for Black residents were built in a tract called Washington Heights, or "The Forties." Landscape architect W. H. Kestler laid out lots around a central green called "The Mall," and from 1936 to 1938 243 houses and 44 duplexes were built for $2,661,981.26. The houses were rented to lower-middle-income families for $14 to $23 a month until 1947, when they were sold to individuals for $4,400 to $9,000 each. Sources Wikipedia: Trussville, Alabama The Historical Marker Database: Confederate Storehouse Burned By Federal Troops (Alabama Historical Commission and the Trussville Historical Board) The Historical Marker Database: Cahaba Project (Alabama Historical Association and the Trussville Historical Board)
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