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The Vagabond

September 21, 2026
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The Vagabond: The old Pulltight community
April 1, 2021
By Danny Crownover Back in the day, the Pulltight section of Gadsden was about the worst gambling, vice and wildcat liquor cen...
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The Vagabond: Greatest hoax ever in Gadsden
March 26, 2021
By Danny Crownover Back in the 1870s and 1880s, the medicinal value of spring water that flowed in a tiny trickle from around the Noccalula Falls are...
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The Vagabond: Old bridges
March 11, 2021
By Danny Crownover The drive to “Get Alabama out of the mud” was an interesting one from the start. The Alabama Good Roads Association sponsore...
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The Vagabond - Alexander Simpson’s great-nephew
March 5, 2021
By Danny Crownover Last year, the Vagabond wrote about Alexander Duncan Simpson, an architect from Scotland who came to Gadsd...
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The Vagabond – Early Gadsden stores and banks
February 26, 2021
By Danny Crownover Many interesting things happened in Gadsden over a hundred years ago. In a copy of a local evening newspaper issued on Octo...
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The Vagabond - Horse trading with Gypsies
February 19, 2021
By Danny Crownover It was reported in 1883 that a large colony of gypsies was encamped near Gadsden. The camp had the usual her...
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The Vagabond - the Gadsden City seal and T.J. Milner
February 12, 2021
By Danny Crownover Like many other cities, Gadsden has an official flag. Back in 1937, the city commission appointed a group o...
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The Vagabond - GOP snow and a resurrected preacher
February 5, 2021
By Danny Crownover The Vagabond finds much of interest in occasional drives around Gadsden and Etowah County. Last week, I passed...
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The Vagabond: opossums, mules and a peculiar billy goat
January 21, 2021
By Danny Crownover Claude Stowers, Jr., recently sent The Vagabond an interesting article on possums, and the article noted that possums are...

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