The Vagabond

March 11, 2026

May 28, 2024

By Danny Crownover Most everybody who lived in the early years of Gadsden often heard that admonition, “Don’t take any wooden n...

May 17, 2024

By Danny Crownover In 1934, the Southern Manufacturing Company used a steam whistle on its main plant that had somewhat of...

May 10, 2024

By Danny Crownover In the early days of Gadsden, itinerant photographers put up tents and did business for a few...

May 3, 2024

By Danny Crownover In July of 1898 shortly before the United States had won the Spanish-American War, citizens of...

April 26, 2024

By Danny Crownover One of the first schools in Gadsden was that of Miss Fannie Fullenwider’s classroom on Eighth Street, locat...

April 19, 2024

By Danny Crownover One of the most distinctive and most artistic building in Gadsden is the stone chapel located in Fo...

April 12, 2024

By Danny Crownover Persons who traveled in this section during the 1870s were told to stay away from Walnut Grove th...

April 5, 2024

By Danny Crownover In the 1880s, Gadsden was frequently visited by medicine shows that were occasionally entertaini...

March 29, 2024

By Danny Crownover Danny Crownover During the late 1870s and 1880s, much of the cultural, business and social life of Gadsden centered...

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