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Sheriff was arrested for battery
Madera County Historical Society Jasper Lewis and his wife, Adelia, posed for this photograph in 1896. Eighteen years later he was...
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Hunter’s Drug served Madera for 100 years
Madera County Historical Society The only drug store in Madera in 1890 belonged to William Hunter. A primitive store in its beginnings,...
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Chasing the Chowchilla Kidnappers: Dixieland students writing the story
Wendy Alexander/The Madera tribune Former Madera County Sheriff Ed Bates meets with Dixieland students at Berenda Slough to tell them...
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Madera lost its political innocence
Madera County Historical Society Madera County Sheriff John Barnett is shown here in 1923 with bank robber Earl McCrory. Barnett,...
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Pearl Harbor stunned Madera
Madera County Historical Society Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, war headlines dominated the front pages of Madera’s...
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Was the mineshaft killing really murder?
Madera County Historical Society The detective work of Sheriff Welton Rhodes, shown here, sent Albert Fuller to the gallows for the 1931...