Bill Coate
Madera’s short-lived oil boom
For The Madera Tribune This oil derrick put dollar signs in the eyes of scores of Maderans as well as the three brothers who owned the...
Bill Coate
Integrating Madera’s swimming pool
For The Madera Tribune George Clark, shown here, was the founder of the Madera Tribune. He later brought his son, Howard Clark in as a...
Bill Coate
Madera won the war without firing a shot
Madera County Historical Society Although he lived south of the San Joaquin River, Thomas E. Hughes, shown here, was a leader in the...
Bill Coate
Kids fought to find fountain
For The Madera Tribune This water fountain, built through the fundraising efforts of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, went missing...
Bill Coate
Babe Sordi and Madera’s Bucket of Blood
For The Madera Tribune Abramo Sordi is seen here in 1913 on a motorcycle he raced. Abramo and his brother Domenic built what became known...
Bill Coate
Dispensing justice with a rope
For The Madera Tribune Many of Madera’s outlaws never saw the inside of this old jail--Madera’s first--Old Judge Lynch took care of them....