The Vagabond

August 26, 2026

June 22, 2012

The official opening of the Black Creek Trail took place last Thursday with a dedication opening at the overlook located north of Black Creek...

June 29, 2012

The old Garner Cemetery is located in a wooded area at the northeast end of Washington Street on a rocky hillside overlooking the Coosa Rive...

July 6, 2012

Just a few steps south of the Bristow Cemetery, just barely inside Etowah County from DeKalb County, is the actual site where Sequoyah first inve...

July 13, 2012

Ita Stocks has left her mark on the history of her time. Not just on local history, not just on state history, but on national history. The l...

July 20, 2012

“I had rather be a vagabond, wandering about in God’s beautiful mountains, or beside his gurgling streams and...

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...

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