Trussville was settled between 1816 and 1819 by a few settlers from the Carolinas before Alabama became the 22nd state in December 1819. The First Baptist Church, Cahaba, was organized in 1821, and Arthur Truss became Trussville’s first postmaster in 1833. The railroad line between Chattanooga and Mississippi through Trussville was completed in 1871. Birmingham Furnace and Manufacturing Company, operating in Trussville on and off from 1889 until the close of World War I, became the town’s first large industry. Under Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Cahaba Homestead Village project, with 287 new housing units for rent, was completed in 1938 and brought a population explosion of young families; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. After the Town of Trussville was incorporated in 1947, Horace Norrell was elected its first mayor.