Bill Coate
Could Lile be another Duane Furman?
Madera County Historical Society Duane Furman, MUSD superintendent for 24 years. Madera Unified School District trustees recently...
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Madera kept its first truant officer busy
Madera County Historical Society The old Webster School may look empty in this photo, but J.E. Rea, the county’s first truant officer,...
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Tribune nearing its 128th birthday
Madera County Historical Society George A. Clark, founder of the Madera Tribune, is shown here in his office on North D Street. The...
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MID, 100 years old
For The Madera Tribune These headlines shouted the success of the effort to create MID 100 years ago. One hundred years ago, the Madera...
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Pistoresi saw the murder of Pickett
Madera County Historical Society Brack Terry, shown here, received a life sentence for the murder of Officer Clarence Pickett. Pete...
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Yosemite Avenue’s garden of gossip
Madera County Historical Society The first Rosenthal Kutner store, a two-story structure on the corner of D Street and Yosemite Avenue is...
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Hunter’s Drug served Madera for 100 years
Madera County Historical Society The only drug store in Madera in 1890 belonged to William Hunter. A primitive store in its beginnings,...