For The Madera Tribune Arcola School. A number of folks who are interested in the history of Madera perked up when attention recently...

Courtesy of the Coate Family Archives Mary Coate. It was no surprise to me on Sunday to hear a Mother’s Day sermon when I went to church....

For The Madera Tribune Madera Sugar Pine lumber continued to be harvested without Chinese workers after the Sugar Pine Fire. It is well...

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...