The Vagabond

March 12, 2026

October 30, 2020

By Danny Crownover Soon after Baine County was created in the fall of 1866, a number of Gadsden citizens petitioned Probate...

October 23, 2020

By Danny Crownover One of the most interesting of the old timers who contributed much to the early development of Gadsden and Attalla...

October 16, 2020

By Danny Crownover Back when it was a small village, Gadsden had a few citizens protesting against the idea of allowing stoc...

October 9, 2020

By Danny Crownover Streets in Gadsden often were named for a certain person or thing connected to the site. For example, Walnut S...

October 2, 2020

By Danny Crownover Albert E. Paschal came to Gadsden in 1879. At about that same time, he bought the lot and built the home...

September 25, 2020

By Danny Crownover J.J. Blanchart established the first bakery in Gadsden in 1868 in a frame building occupying the western hal...

September 18, 2020

By Danny Crownover Back in 1868, Gadsden was excited over an effort to bore an oil well in Owl Valley, located just on the n...

September 11, 2020

By Danny Crownover Back in 1961, The Vagabond was just six years old. It seems that his father had to go to East Gadsden for erra...

September 4, 2020

By Danny Crownover Author’s note: Robert Elton recently sent The Vagabond his memoirs of growing up in Gadsden. Robert is originally f...

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