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Year-round attractions

Gee’s Bend Heritage Trail

The Gee’s Bend Heritage Trail commemorates the 10 Gee’s Bend quilts that appeared on U.S. postage stamps in 2006. This self-guided driving tour allows you to explore the community and its quiltmaking heritage at your own pace.

The River Gallery

Located at the Gee’s Bend Welcome Center, The River Gallery presents year-round exhibitions curated by Souls Grown Deep, exploring Gee's Bend's extraordinary history and artistic heritage. On display through August 2024: The History of Gee’s Bend from 1816 to the Present. Mon: 10:00 am–1:00 pm, Tue - Sat: 10:00 am–3:00 pm

The Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy

The Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy is a museum, community center, and gift shop that offers year-round exhibitions, workshops, and tours. Tue - Sat: 10:00 am–3:00 pm

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Featured Event

2024 Gee’s Bend
Airing of the Quilts Festival

Saturday • October 12 • 2024

Join the Gee’s Bend community in this annual celebration of its generations-old quiltmaking tradition, featuring quilt displays and sales, workshops, guided tours, food, music, and more.

Guided Tours at the Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy
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Guided Tours at the Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy

Discover the history of a Black women-owned and operated quilt manufacturing facility—the Freedom Quilting Bee. It is a captivating journey through time, culture, and craftsmanship. The business co-operative began in 1966. At the height of operations this business employed 150 women, working two shifts manufacturing quilts for the retail market. These resilient sharecropping women came out of the fields, built a business that negotiated and maintained contracts with Sears, Bloomingdale’s, interior designers in New York and other major American retailers.  

Their quilts were purchased in the mid-1960s by Jackson Pollock, Diana Vreeland and others of arts and fashion communities of the period. These purchases partially funded the cost of construction in 1969 of the 4200 square foot building that stands now as a museum to honor the women who founded and worked at the Freedom Quilting Bee.

Learn of their leadership and commitment to the work for Civil Rights, Voting Rights and Women’s Rights movements during the tumult of those struggles; learn of the marches, and the arrests. Learn of the strategizing employed locally for desegregation of Wilcox County schools. Delve into the heartwarming stories intricately stitched into every quilt, showcasing a profound heritage of creativity and community resilience that continues to inspire.

Join us at the Freedom Quilting Bee each Saturday at 11am for this docent led tour, no advanced registration needed.
Suggested donation: $15 per person.


Private tours are available by contacting The Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy at (334) 573-2065 or by emailing info@FQBLegacy.org.

Speakers Bureau and Group Visit Scheduling

The Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy facilitates and schedules speakers and quilt demonstrations and storytelling by Gee’s Bend quilters for group visits to the area and/or outside engagements.The Speakers Bureau experience is customized for your needs and interests and take place at the Freedom Quilting Bee building or at a location of your choosing.  Cost for this experience varies based on location, size of your group and other factors.  Please contact us at 334-573-2065 or info@FQBLegacy.org for information on scheduling a Speakers Bureau experience for your group.

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