The Vagabond

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July 12, 2019

By Danny Crownover The Vagabond reported in a past column about a Chickasaw Indian village once located south of Big...

June 21, 2019

By Danny Crownover One of the funniest and strangest things ever to hap-pen in Gadsden occurred in 1904 just after Broad...

June 7, 2019

By Danny Crownover It was probably a dull day in May of 1882 when a reporter for a local newspaper wrote this item...

June 3, 2019

By Danny Crownover The Vagabond recently wrote about Will I. Martin’s story of Bud Easterwood. We now we get to read...

May 24, 2019

By Danny Crownover Two mysterious men appeared in Gadsden in the mid-1890s, and for several months afterward, the...

May 17, 2019

By Danny Crownover William Kuner recently posted an article about local historian Will I. Martin meeting his grandmother and...

May 3, 2019

By Danny Crownover There was news recently about some Native American writings found in Manitou Cave in Fort Payne. Th...

April 19, 2019

The Ringling Brothers Circus made its first appearance in Gadsden on Nov. 8, 1899. Ringling Brothers was a rival of th...

April 12, 2019

By Danny Crownover Back in 1869, there was an article from The Selma Times advocating a canal across Sand Mountain to conn...

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