On June 4, 1910, members of the Madera School Board determined to explore the possibility of building another school on the West side of town. Madera’s first school had been constructed

Madera’s first Chinese residents came here from the town of Borden. They had arrived at that spot in 1872 with the laying of the Southern Pacific tracks, but when Madera was

During the 33-year existence of the flume, which gave birth to Madera, more than one billion feet of lumber, floated down the big trough from the mountains toward the mill near

The ethnohistory of the North Fork Mono Indians, like all tribes of the area, is a story of trials, accomplishments, adjustments and integration. Throughout their history the tribe has learned to

It was Friday morning, and although it was cold and windy in San Quentin, Madera County Sheriff John Barnett was up early. He had a date with the hangman, for this

In part three we learned about the formation of reservations, or farms, that the federal government set aside for native peoples in the San Joaquin Valley. They were set up to

Scattered throughout Madera’s past are several quiet heroes — not heroes because of acts of bravery, but heroes because they engaged in silent acts of forgiveness repeated again and again, not

For the first 19 years of its existence as an incorporated city, Madera’s political machinery ran without rancor or hard feelings, for the most part. Most office seekers simply offered their

The year was 1958, and President Dwight David Eisenhower was looking for a few good judges. Since one of the federal vacancies he was attempting to fill was in California’s San

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in The Madera Tribune on Aug. 22, 2006. • • • The study on the ethnohistory of the Northfork Mono Indians describes in detail