The Vagabond

August 24, 2026

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...

June 23, 2023

By Danny Crownover The Vagabond has heard stories about how Thomas B. Cooper, a wealthy iron manufacturer and noted legisla...

June 16, 2023

By Danny Crownover In 1947, an announcement that the new Gadsden Curb Market at Sixteenth Street and Forrest Avenue would b...

June 9, 2023

By Danny Crownover Gadsden’s first furniture factory was located on the east side of North Fifth Street at the corner of Locu...

June 2, 2023

By Danny Crownover In 1898 there was what was called at that time an epidemic of horse thievery, so frequent and so general as to a...

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