Bill Coate
Madera’s scouts were always prepared
Courtesy of Pat Emmert Manning Keith Emmert, shown here, led Madera Scouts on a tour of America. The headline in The Madera Tribune read,...
Bill Coate
Cuckolded husband almost vindicated
For The Madera Tribune George Harlow’s prison photo. Clara Orr was a child bride. She was only 15 when she married 26-year-old George...
For The Madera Tribune
Vilma Salcedo Warner: Resident since 1995
This is a partial excerpt from Neighbors: Oral History from Madera, California Volume 2 by Lawrence F. Lihosit, a local historian. It is...
Bill Coate
Revenge at the Hildreth Hotel
Madera County Historical Society This hotel was the centerpiece of the town of Hildreth. It is also the place where Harry Daniels got...
Bill Coate
First to go, first to die
Madera County Historical Society The first Maderans to be drafted in WWI are shown here at the Madera depot on Sept. 9, 1917, as they...
For The Madera Tribune
Benny Muñoz: Resident since 1964
This is an excerpt from Neighbors: Oral History from Madera, California Volume 2 by Lawrence F. Lihosit, a local historian. It is...
Bill Coate
Sheriff Bates and the Board
They called it a matter of supply and demand. America had a fuel crisis in the 1970s and it trickled all the way down to Madera County...