The Vagabond

August 24, 2026

December 3, 2020

By Danny Crownover Around 1902, a story was reported of the capture of Jeff Van Horn at Sligo, a little coal mining village...

November 13, 2020

By Danny Crownover From the day in 1879 when the Sells Brothers Circus exhibited an electric light in Gadsden as a feature attraction to the p...

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...

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