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The Vagabond

February 18, 2026

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Runaway train in Gadsden and a heroic stop

February 16, 2026

By Danny Crownover Back in the early 1890s Gadsden was startled when a wild locomotive came dashing through town going east at full speed, heading for the L....

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Beginning of the Meighan Bridge

January 18, 2026

By Danny Crownover Back in 1947, shortly after James E. Folsom took over as governor of Alabama, he made a tour of the state. He went with director Ward McF...

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Gadsden City Hall locations of the past

January 7, 2026

By Danny Crownover Prior to 1897, city hall was at the Hollingsworth Building, in a rented room over what became the present office of the Stringer Realty...

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Parking problems in horse and buggy days

November 25, 2025

By Danny Crownover Gadsden had its parking problems back in the horse and buggy days, but they were not as acute and as dif...

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The real story on how Gadsden got its name

October 30, 2025

By Danny Crownover Gadsden was named after Col. James Gadsden, distinguished soldier, diplomat, railroad president and businessman of Charles...

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Etowah County Courthouse once was filthy

October 10, 2025

By Danny Crownover Back around 1949 the local paper was talking about when Etowah County’s new million-dollar courthouse was to be taken over a...

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Early road bond proposals beaten in Etowah County

September 25, 2025

By Danny Crownover Back in 1899 the voters of Etowah County turned down a proposal to issue $100,000 bonds for building good roads by an ove...

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Gadsden’s accurate clock in the 1870s

September 19, 2025

By Danny Crownover In today’s timekeeping, clocks have been made so accurate that they are able to keep time through atomic clocks to the micr...

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Coosa to Tennessee Rivers – Early railroad building

September 17, 2025

By Danny Crownover Back in 1883, Major Hugh Carlisle reported that construction on the Tennessee & Coosa Railroad from Guntersvil...

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