The Gee’s Bend Heritage Trail is a self-guided driving tour that allows you to explore the community and its quiltmaking heritage at your own pace, year-round.
ALWAYS OPEN.
Beginning outside the Gee's Bend Welcome Center, this self-guided driving tour lets you explore the community and its quiltmaking heritage at your own pace. Always open.
On the Gee's Bend Heritage Trail, visitors can learn about the quiltmakers whose work was featured on a set of 10 commemorative stamps issued by the US Postal Service in 2006 as part of the American Treasures series. Located near where their makers lived and worked, Heritage Trail markers feature full-size reproductions of the quilts, along with biographical information, stories, and photographs of the women who created them..
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.
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Loretta Pettway (b. 1942–2026) Medallion, c. 1960, Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jessie T. Pettway (1929-2023) Bars and string-piece columns, 1950s, Collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Annie Mae Young (1928-2013) Blocks and strips, c. 1970, Collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Lottie Mooney (1908-1992) "Housetop"—four-block "Half-Log Cabin" variation, c. 1940, Collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Arlonzia Pettway (1923-2008) "Chinese Coins" variation, c. 1965, Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Loretta Pettway (b. 1942–2026) Crazy Quilt, 1970, Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Ruth Pettway Mosely (1928-2006) "Nine Patch," c. 1955, Collection of RISD Museum
Minnie Sue Coleman (1926-2012) "Pig in a Pen" medallion, c. 1970, Collection of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Patty Ann Williams (1898-1972) Medallion with checkerboard center, 1960s, Private Collection
Mary Lee Bendolph (b. 1935) "Housetop" variation, 1998, Collection of The Phillips Collection