Bill Coate
Madera went from town to city
Madera County Historical Society Madera knew it had become a city when Greyhound named one of its buses “City of Madera.” The first two...
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County clerk said ‘no’ to Black voter
Madera County Historical Society The courthouse in which Harry St. John Dixon refused to register Gabriel Moore to vote can be seen in...
Bill Coate
Serial killing began in North Fork
Madera County Historical Society Edmund Kemper III in a prison mug shot. The grandmother sat at her writing desk in the living room of...
Bill Coate
Preserving the memory of a forgotten people
Madera County Historical Society Frank Tuck is shown here, second from the left. Assisting him in the 1966 unveiling of the new plaque...
Bill Coate
V-Flume artery kept Madera’s heart beating
Madera County Historical Society More than a billion feet of lumber floated out of the mountains to Madera in this flume from 1876 to...
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Madera and Nixon’s ‘Checkers Speech’
Madera Tribune File Photo Congressman Richard Nixon is seen here campaigning from a station wagon parked on Yosemite Avenue in 1950. He...