The Vagabond

April 21, 2026

September 29, 2022

By Danny Crownover In January of 1948, Gadsden Mayor J.H. Meighan announced that he had finally closed negotiations for a new tra...

September 23, 2022

By Danny Crownover Dr. John Perry Gunn, a noted Gadsden dentist, was probably better known in Etowah, Marshall and St. Clair counti...

September 16, 2022

By Danny Crownover In 1893, a number of Gadsden residents were earning money carrying droves of horses and mules to Florida...

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...

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