The Vagabond

October 9, 2026

October 2, 2026

By Danny Crownover [The Vagabond] During the First World War, a photograph of a miniature locomotive circulated widely and attra...

King Hotel, one of the first in Gadsden

September 18, 2026

By Danny Crownover One of the earliest hotels in Gadsden was the King Hotel on Fourth Street — located just south of Broad...

City dynamite blast and wandering thoughts

September 11, 2026

By Danny Crownover [The Vagabond] The heaviest dynamite explosion inside the city limits of Gadsden occurred at the Hammond Ir...

Dr. Camp's career as physician here

September 4, 2026

By Danny Crownover [The Vagabond] One of the most well-known and most capable physicians and surgeons this city ever had was Dr. Erasmus Taylor Camp, who died on his farm in T...

Activities during First World War

August 28, 2026

By Danny Crownover [The Vagabond] Back in June 1918, when World War I was beginning to take a heavy toll of American lives,...

Gadsden First Methodist is 180 years old

August 14, 2026

By Danny Crownover Gadsden’s First Methodist Church is 180 years old, maybe a year older. It was in 1845 or 1846 that...

Fun for small boys back in fall of 1883

July 17, 2026

By Danny Crownover Back in the fall of 1883 the small boys of Gadsden were enjoying such things as: Jeter’s world, “preachin’ Jim Abbott&...

Civil War cavalry camped here in 1863

June 26, 2026

By Danny Crownover It was in 1863 that an advance detachment of the Eighth Alabama Cavalry, unaware of the denizens of the quain...

City’s early paving moves opposed

June 18, 2026

By Danny Crownover Despite the war and shortages in material and labor Gadsden has done much paving in the past few years and in 1945 prepared to la...