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The Vagabond

September 18, 2026
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Gadsden City Hall locations of the past
January 7, 2026
By Danny Crownover Prior to 1897, city hall was at the Hollingsworth Building, in a rented room over what became the present office of the Stringer Realty...
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Parking problems in horse and buggy days
November 25, 2025
By Danny Crownover Gadsden had its parking problems back in the horse and buggy days, but they were not as acute and as dif...
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The real story on how Gadsden got its name
October 30, 2025
By Danny Crownover Gadsden was named after Col. James Gadsden, distinguished soldier, diplomat, railroad president and businessman of Charles...
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Etowah County Courthouse once was filthy
October 10, 2025
By Danny Crownover Back around 1949 the local paper was talking about when Etowah County’s new million-dollar courthouse was to be taken over a...
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Early road bond proposals beaten in Etowah County
September 25, 2025
By Danny Crownover Back in 1899 the voters of Etowah County turned down a proposal to issue $100,000 bonds for building good roads by an ove...
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Gadsden’s accurate clock in the 1870s
September 19, 2025
By Danny Crownover In today’s timekeeping, clocks have been made so accurate that they are able to keep time through atomic clocks to the micr...
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Coosa to Tennessee Rivers – Early railroad building
September 17, 2025
By Danny Crownover Back in 1883, Major Hugh Carlisle reported that construction on the Tennessee & Coosa Railroad from Guntersvil...
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Elliott Park was once a popular resort
September 3, 2025
When the Schulers came here with their steel mill in 1903 they soon acquired the street railway line in Gadsden, Ala...
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Gadsden’s first ice-making plant was built in 1887
August 22, 2025
By Danny Crownover Gadsden’s first ice making plant was built in 1887 by Dr. J.R. Nowlin, John W. Duncan, L.W. Dean and H....

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