Card game turned violent on Yosemite Avenue
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At the turn of the 20th century, there were more than a dozen watering holes on Madera’s main street, and one of the most frequented was the Gilt E
Pieces of the Past
A vignette from the annals of the San Joaquin Valley by historian Bill Coate.
How did Madera High School come to be?
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The crowd gathered at the Athletic Hall on Yosemite Avenue for Madera High School’s commencement exercise in June 1903.
Was Hammond’s parole a death warrant?
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If ever there was such a thing as a ne’er do well, Leonard Hammond must have been it.
Madera said goodbye on the Fourth of July
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Ninety-nine years ago a huge parade inched down Yosemite Avenue as it always did on the anniversary of our nation’s independence.
Franco’s Nursery: Conceived in Italy, born in Madera
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Franco’s Nursery in Madera had a long history before it ever sold a plant here.
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