The Vagabond

September 21, 2026

August 12, 2021

By Danny Crownover On September 1, 1900, the only hotel until recent times to be built in Alabama City, the Dwight Inn, caught fire at 1 a.m. i...

August 5, 2021

By Danny Crownover In May of 1900, the City of Gadsden did itself proud by hosting the annual convention of the volunteer firemen from Georgia...

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...

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