GADSDEN, a rapidly growing city of Etowah county, Ala bama, U.S.A., on the Coosa river, 65m. N.E. of Birmingham, Ala. It is on Federal highway 11, and is served by the Louisville and Nashville, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, the Southern and the Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia railways, and by numer ous motor bus lines. The population was 14,737 in 1920 (29% negroes) and was 24,042 in 1930 by the Federal census. Gads den is in the iron and coal region of Alabama, and has abundant hydro-electric power from the Coosa river. The city has a large trade in lumber, cotton and grain, and is an important manufactur ing centre, with an output in 1927 valued at $17.490,111. Among its products are iron and steel, cotton yarns, sashes and doors. Gadsden was founded about 1860 and incorporated as a city in 1871. In the decade 1900-10 the population increased from 4,282 to