The Vagabond

September 17, 2026

September 14, 2012

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

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...

August 31, 2012

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

August 24, 2012

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

August 17, 2012

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

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...

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...

July 20, 2012

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

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...

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