Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune File Photo The John Wells Youth Center was so-named in honor of the man who gave so much to make the...

For The Madera Tribune Dr. Barbara Flores. Not every pioneer trail to California was laid out along lines of latitude. Not all of them...

For The Madera Tribune View of colonial buildings in old town of Oaxaca city in Mexico. This story begins in Madera Unified School...

For The Madera Tribune A sheriff’s posse poses around the mortally wounded train robber, John Sontag. Shown second from the left is Hiram...

For The Madera Tribune Madera got another three-story building in 1913, this time on the north side of Yosemite Avenue. Old Timers Day in...

For The Madera Tribune G.W. Mordecai, one of Madera’s most influential pioneers. Madera celebrated its fourth birthday in 1880, firmly...

For The Madera Tribune Dr. Dow Ransom. With these words, one of Madera’s most highly respected physicians paid homage to the first school...

For The Madera Tribune Madera’s old jail was once the scene of a ferocious struggle between two lawmen and a citizen loaded with loot....