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From front page dation Inc. President Amy Peterson O’Brien updated the Trussville mayor and council on the Stone Gateway Project at the March 9 council workshop meeting.

“I wanted to give an update on the Stone Gateway fundraising; this is a conservative estimate,” she said. “We’re at about $19,500 in fundraising for Stone Gateway toward our $50,000 goal.”

According to the Cahaba Homestead Heritage Foundation Inc. website, the Stone Gateway Project will identify Trussville’s historic community with sandstone entrances reading: “Cahaba Homestead Village – U.S. Resettlement Administration – Est. 19361938.”

The three Stone Gateway entrances are proposed to be located at the Chalkville Road/Rockridge Avenue/ Poplar Street intersection, the Poplar Street/Parkway Drive intersection, and the green park along Chalkville Road between Hewitt Street and Magnolia Court.

“We determined that we can have about 500 bricks –if you recall, these are a brick pathway connecting the gateway to the existing sidewalk