The Vagabond

January 28, 2026

September 15, 2023

By Danny Crownover Gadsden businessman W.U. Paschal literally landed here by ferryboat in 1888 when he was a boy. He was startl...

September 1, 2023

By Danny Crownover The largest peach orchard ever planted in Etowah County was located on the side of the mountain overlooking w...

August 18, 2023

By Danny Crownover Gadsden’s first iron foundry was established in 1879 by William Hagen, an expert molder, and John Flynn an...

August 11, 2023

By Danny Crownover On the northwest corner of Locust and Fourth streets in Gadsden stood the site of the old Exchange Hotel b...

July 27, 2023

By Danny Crownover The first person to be born in the City of Gadsden was Joseph R. Hughes on March 14, 1842. He was the son...

July 21, 2023

By Danny Crownover One of the most oddball characters to ever reside in Gadsden was Darwin DeWolf, an itinerant piano tuner...

July 14, 2023

By Danny Crownover Gadsden’s first and only cotton compress was located where the A.T. Stocks Medical Building once stood at...

July 7, 2023

By Danny Crownover A story was written in 1927 to the effect that the mechanical wherewithal of Sand Mountain resident Clau...

June 30, 2023

By Danny Crownover While watching several fire engines and a huge aerial truck race out of Gadsden’s 4th Street Station the ot...

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