

Judge Lynch once ruled Madera County
For The Madera Tribune This photograph of Spring Valley School in O’Neals was taken in 1894, one year after Victor Adams was hanged from...
Bill Coate
Apr 23, 2024


One armed painter went on the warpath
For The Madera Tribune Sheriff Jasper Lewis, shown here with his wife, had his hands full with a renegade, one-armed painter on the...
Bill Coate
Apr 19, 2024


Woman died fighting for her kids
For The Madera Tribune Eva Fridley Garner. Eva Fridley and John Garner were married in Modesto and moved to Madera in 1890. She was 16,...
Bill Coate
Apr 17, 2024


Fire cleared the way for Courthouse Park
For The Madera Tribune It didn’t take long for Courthouse Park to take shape after a fire in 1909 cleared the property of every building...
Bill Coate
Apr 17, 2024


From Jim Crow to Civil Rights
For The Madera Tribune Dr. Albert Wilburn will be among the African-Americans featured in a Madera Method history project that will...
Bill Coate
Apr 9, 2024


One son died; one lived
For The Madera Tribune Navy Blue Angels; 1949. Maderan Raleigh Rhodes is shown third from the right. Welton Rhodes and William O. Justice...
Bill Coate
Apr 5, 2024


Robber got the drop on Madera police
For The Madera Tribune Walter Thomas, shown here second from the left in the 1930s. At the time he was one-fifth of the Madera police...
Bill Coate
Apr 5, 2024


Searching the cemetery: ‘Everything is findable’
For The Madera Tribune Raymond, CA, around the time that Henry Jones shot himself in the town’s blacksmith shop. Henry S. Jones is buried...
Bill Coate
Mar 29, 2024




