Editing Trussville, Alabama (section)

=== Early settlement ===
The first European settler to establish residence in the area was Warren Truss, who entered the area with his brothers and constructed a grist mill on the Cahaba River in 1821. Truss was a North Carolina man of [[English American|English descent]].<ref>Trussville, Alabama: A Brief History  By Gary Lloyd page 11</ref> Trussville remained an agricultural community until after the Civil War, when the Alabama-Chattanooga Railway was built through the city. By 1886 a blast furnace was built on what is now the site of the new Cahaba Elementary School. Trussville was listed as an incorporated community on the 1890<ref>{{cite web |title=Statistics of Population - Minor Civil Divisions 1880 and 1890 - Alabama |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1890a_v1-07.pdf |website=United States Census Bureau |pages=52–59 |date=1890}}</ref> and 1900<ref>{{cite web |title=Statistics of Population - Minor Civil Divisions - Alabama |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/33405927v1ch05.pdf |website=United States Census Bureau |pages=54{{endash}}63 |date=1900}}</ref> U.S. Census rolls. At some point after 1900 until its reincorporation in 1947, it did not appear on census records.