Bill Coate
Saroyan memorialized Madera High
Madera County Historical Society William Saroyan at Madera High School. William Saroyan was apparently not the easiest person in the...
Bill Coate
Madera County sought solvency right from the start
Madera County Historical Society More than a dozen watering holes, like the Peerless saloon shown here, at one time lined Yosemite...
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Madera went from town to city
Madera County Historical Society Madera knew it had become a city when Greyhound named one of its buses “City of Madera.” The first two...
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County clerk said ‘no’ to Black voter
Madera County Historical Society The courthouse in which Harry St. John Dixon refused to register Gabriel Moore to vote can be seen in...
Bill Coate
Preserving the memory of a forgotten people
Madera County Historical Society Frank Tuck is shown here, second from the left. Assisting him in the 1966 unveiling of the new plaque...
Bill Coate
Madera and Nixon’s ‘Checkers Speech’
Madera Tribune File Photo Congressman Richard Nixon is seen here campaigning from a station wagon parked on Yosemite Avenue in 1950. He...