Bill Coate
Looking back at Lincoln School
Madera County Historical Society This photograph was one of many that Lincoln principal James Pyer stuck in his album. It appears to be...
Bill Coate
Fire was constant threat to Madera
Madera County Historical Society Captain Mace’s Hotel was one of the casualties of Madera’s 1886 fire. For the first eight and one-half...
Bill Coate
Walter Vernon Yeager: The face of a killer
Madera County Historical Society Walter Vernon Yeager. Walter Vernon Yeager was a killer. On Nov. 10, 1923, he murdered traffic cop...
For The Madera Tribune
Students seek kin of sheriffs
Five classes of Madera Method scholars are seeking descendants of all Madera County sheriffs. The students are researching the lives and...
Bill Coate
Tony Tavares, the first Maderan to die in the Korean War
Madera County Historical Society Pfc. Tony Tavares was the first soldier from Madera to die in the Korean War in 1950. On Monday, Madera...
Bill Coate
Madera rejected the Klan in time
From the Author’s Collection In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan experienced a revival and made its presence felt in communities all over the...
Bill Coate
Westfall: A sheriff of second chances
Madera County Historical Society Sheriff Sampson W. Westfall bit off more than he could chew when he tried to give one ne’er-do-well a...