The Vagabond

May 16, 2026

July 30, 2021

By Danny Crownover In 1902, John L. Burnett introduced a bill in the U.S. Congress which, if passed, would authorize R.R. Ashbu...

July 23, 2021

By Danny Crownover Former City of Gadsden police captain Will W. Thornton had a very vivid recollection of one of his most exci...

July 16, 2021

By Danny Crownover In January of 1903, Judge James A. Bilbro of the Etowah County Circuit Court rendered a decision that dissolv...

July 9, 2021

By Danny Crownover Over the years, many businesses in and around Gadsden had odd names for one reason and another. For instanc...

July 2, 2021

By Danny Crownover By the 1950s, one could not find any old-time village blacksmith shops around town. There was a time when G...

June 24, 2021

By Danny Crownover While reminiscing at my favorite corner in downtown Gadsden at Fourth and Broad streets the other day, Th...

June 17, 2021

By Danny Crownover The Vagabond recently came across an interesting article written Nov. 9, 1948 by local historian Will I. Marti...

June 11, 2021

In 1885, the Gadsden City Council elected Henry C. White as the city’s first marshal and chief of po...

June 7, 2021

By Danny Crownover Joan (pronounced Jo Ann) Mims recently showed The Vagabond a photo of herself as a baby being held under an airp...

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