The Vagabond

February 18, 2026

September 9, 2022

By Danny Crownover In 1911, Edgar Oliver McCord moved to Gadsden from Albertville to practice law. He soon formed a partner...

August 19, 2022

By Danny Crownover Monday, February 13, 1899, was the coldest ever day experienced by Gadsden and Etowah County, as the ther...

July 28, 2022

By Danny Crownover Gadsden has had more than its share of colorful men who lived by their wits, to say nothing of transient...

July 22, 2022

By Danny Crownover In the late 1870s and early 1880s, Jean Leclaire, a Frenchman, was a strange Gadsden character, especiall...

July 14, 2022

By Danny Crownover The first smallpox outbreak that Gadsden experienced was in January of 1883 when J.F. Pendergrast of New O...

July 8, 2022

By Danny Crownover In July of 1888 when Gadsden was experiencing its first big boom and many folks expected to get rich quick, s...

July 1, 2022

By Danny Crownover The first special edition ever issued by a local Gadsden newspaper rolled off the presses on the morning of Ju...

June 24, 2022

By Danny Crownover In 1869, a local Gadsden newspaper copied an editorial from The Selma Times advocating a canal across Sand M...

April 22, 2022

By Danny Crownover Back in April of 1924, the mayors of Gadsden, Alabama City and Attalla issued proclamations for a clean-up...

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