The Vagabond

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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...

April 5, 2019

By Danny “The Vagabond” Crownover The first steamboat to ply the waters of the Coosa River was appropriat...

March 22, 2019

By Danny Crownover Gadsden’s historian Will I. Martin wrote extensively about early Gadsden. The following is a sampl...

March 15, 2019

By Danny Crownover Many boys and older men who did not participate in the Civil War stayed behind and formed Home...

March 1, 2019

By Danny Crownover The American Civil War remains the most significant event in Alabama’s history. Tensions that had been bu...

February 22, 2019

By Danny Crownover In June of 1959, two human torsos were discovered a few hours apart in Etowah and St. Clair counties and...

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