The Vagabond

July 6, 2026

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...

May 6, 2016

Back in February of 1868, Gadsden suffered its most disastrous fire up at that time when what was called the Masonic Lodge block was entirely...

April 29, 2016

One of the funniest things to happen in Gadsden during the so-called “Gay Nineties” (1890’s) was the purchase of a “dead man” by fou...

April 22, 2016

It is very unlikely that few if any Gadsden residents can locate where the smallest brick business house on Broad Street or, for that mat...

April 8, 2016

When there was much discussion of hydroelectric power over the country in the 1900’s, Gadsden was talking about the Coosa River as...

April 1, 2016

The Emma Sansom statue on Broad Street in Gadsden was dedicated back in 2007, and many locals celebrated the unveiling. This w...

March 25, 2016

The Ringling Brothers Circus made its first appearance in Gadsden on Nov. 8, 1899. The show had been in Birmingham and Anniston and...

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