Bill Coate
The beginnings of a Madera hero
For The Madera Tribune The Dow Ransom house on C Street. One of Madera’s most productive generations was made up of its citizens who were...
Bill Coate
The Hensley’s family affair
For The Madera Tribune Olive Hensley is shown here with her sons Leonard and Earl and her husband; We are just not sure which husband,...
Bill Coate
‘A good and faithful servant’
For The Madera Tribune Borden’s Cumberland Presbyterian Church, shown here circa 1900, stood right beside Rev. W.B. McElwee in his...
Bill Coate
Can anyone really replace Ed Gwartney?
For The Madera Tribune Ed Gwartney, founder and director of the James Monroe Children’s Museum. Ed Gwartney would have been 83-years-old...
Bill Coate
Clark and the Japanese
For The Madera Tribune George Clark, founder of The Madera Tribune. By December 1944, the president had declared that the Issei and...
Bill Coate
1914 queen contest created a commotion
Madera County Historical Society Lena Northern Adams is shown here in 1914 after she won the title of Madera’s Raisin Queen. Originally...