The Vagabond

December 17, 2025

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...

April 15, 2022

By Danny Crownover Two springs are located in Gadsden at Third Street and Tuscaloosa Avenue (also known as Ewing Avenue) th...

April 1, 2022

By Danny Crownover A sprawling subterranean city was recently uncovered in Noccalula Falls Park in Gadsden. The discovery was announced by...

February 4, 2022

By Danny Crownover Last week The Vagabond mentioned some of the “first” in the Gadsden area. One of these was a local man who invented the typew...

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