The Vagabond

August 23, 2026

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...

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...

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...

September 17, 2025

By Danny Crownover Back in 1883, Major Hugh Carlisle reported that construction on the Tennessee & Coosa Railroad from Guntersvil...

September 3, 2025

When the Schulers came here with their steel mill in 1903 they soon acquired the street railway line in Gadsden, Ala...

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....

August 1, 2025

By Danny Crownover While driving through the site of Camp Sibert in the flatwoods region recently, the Vagabond recalled several discussions...

July 18, 2025

By Danny Crownover Back in April 1883, the worst storm ever recorded in this immediate section struck the south end of Etowah County with terr...

July 11, 2025

One of the most useful citizens Gadsden ever had was Charles K. Crossfield. He came here in 1916 from...

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