In 2006, as part of its American Treasures Series, the U.S. Postal Service issued a set of first-class stamps featuring ten Gee’s Bend quilts made between 1940 and 2001, marking the first time work by living artists was included in the series.

This self-guided driving tour allows you to explore the community and its quiltmaking heritage at your own pace. Located close to where their creators lived and worked, Heritage Trail markers feature full-size reproductions of the quilts as well as biographical information, personal stories, and photographs of their makers.

Heritage Trail maps are available at the Gee’s Bend Welcome Center in Boykin and the Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy in Alberta, or you can Download the mobile map (as cell service may be unreliable, it is recommended that you do so in advance).

The Gee’s Bend Heritage Trail is a project of Souls Grown Deep in collaboration with the Gee’s Bend community and the University of Alabama Center for Economic Development.