The Vagabond

June 7, 2026

July 27, 2012

The Vagabond has heard of Colvin’s Mountain in the past. Joyce Stocks, a direct descendant of the Colvin family, recently came to the Va...

August 10, 2012

This week the Vagabond writes about the Printup Hotel building, located at Locust and Fourth streets in Gadsden. In the early 1880...

August 17, 2012

Incorporated as a town on February 5, 1872, by the 44th General Assembly of the Alabama Legislature. However, th...

August 24, 2012

Along with several other adventurers from the Etowah Historical Society, the Vagabond recently trave...

August 31, 2012

“Bury me standing up, facing the Coosa River, so I can see the damned steam boats go by” &...

September 7, 2012

The site of Fort Turkeytown is clouded with the fact that research indicates that there was a council house and village established...

September 14, 2012

The Vagabond recently wrote about LaFayette Marion Stiff, who was buried standing up. Nearby is an...

September 21, 2012

In the home of Gadsden’s first pioneer, Gabriel Hughes, the first school of which we have any k...

May 13, 2016

Gadsden has had a few booms that helped to build the city to its present prosperous stage, although some of them appeared to have...

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