For The Madera Tribune The Vignola Hotel in Berenda. It was late in February when Leonard Hammond walked into the saloon of the Vignolo...

For The Madera Tribune Yee Chung with his Madera wife (left), and the wife he left in China. The year was 1865, and Yee Chung was headed...

For The Madera Tribune By 1931, saloons in Madera County had become peaceful, as this photo shows. They stood in sharp contrast to the...

For The Madera Tribune George A. Clark in his Tribune office. This is another tale straight out of Arbor Vitae Cemetery, but it begins in...

For The Madera Tribune Judge William Conley found woman “crazy.” Judge Conley’s Madera County courtroom held a standing-room-only crowd...

For The Madera Tribune The site of the false accusation. There is one piece of Madera’s past that represents one of the saddest and most...

For The Madera Tribune Horace and Ida Macon with their son Herbert Macon. He was the first Maderan to die in battle in World War I. War...

For The Madera Tribune Sheriff John Jones brought law and order to Sugar Pine. On May 16, 1905, the Madera County coroner held an inquest...