

Frenchman shot a ‘coyote’
For The Madera Tribune Ah Tye was working for Mrs. Yee Chung, widow of a prosperous Madera County fruit merchant, when he was shot by a...
Bill Coate
Aug 30, 2023


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
Aug 25, 2023


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
Aug 23, 2023


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
Aug 18, 2023


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
Aug 16, 2023


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
Aug 11, 2023


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....
Bill Coate
Aug 9, 2023


Lumber meant more to Madera
For The Madera Tribune Building the flume that built Madera. Although the search for precious metals brought the first pioneers to Madera...
Bill Coate
Aug 5, 2023




