The Vagabond

March 19, 2025

March 20, 2024

By Danny Crownover Etowah County’s tuberculosis hospital located on Lookout Mountain opened in June...

March 8, 2024

By Danny Crownover In June of 1897 under the direction of Alderman Obal Christopher, the City of...

March 1, 2024

By Danny Crownover In June of 1897, the Gadsden Fire Department was so busy promoting a steamboat...

February 23, 2024

By Danny Crownover General W.L. Sibert (pictured at far right), who was the designer and builder...

February 16, 2024

By Danny Crownover Colonel R.B. Kyle, pioneer industrialist, capitalist and builder of Gadsden, told...

February 9, 2024

By Danny Crownover A reader recently asked The Vagabond when the First Baptist Church of Gadsden...

February 2, 2024

By Danny Crownover There are two springs at Third Street and Tuscaloosa Avenue, sometimes known as...

January 25, 2024

By Danny Crownover In the early 1900s, Colonel Reuben A. Mitchell conceived the idea of building...

January 19, 2024

By Danny Crownover A tall cedar tree located in the front yard of the Elliott House on Forrest Avenue...

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