Bill Coate
Madera and the ‘Forbidden City’
Madera County Historical Society Young Ah Mooey (Leong Ah Len) is shown here in this government affidavit showing that she was born in...
Bill Coate
Heroism at Normandy
For The Madera Tribune President Theodore Roosevelt’s son, Theodore Jr., was the only general who joined the landing troops on D-Day...
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Seventy-five years after D-Day
Madera County Historical Society Dr. Dow Ransom Jr. served on the USS La Vallette, a Fletcher class destroyer, during World War II....
Bill Coate
President who carried tragedy to White House
For The Madera Tribune Former U.S. President James Buchanan. Robert Coleman was a self-made man who immigrated to America from Ireland...
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William tried everything to stay out of jail
Madera County Historical Society While Madera County was building its new courthouse, William McNaughton was serving a five month jail...
Bill Coate
Madera’s Civil War connection
Courtesy of Clay Daulton Minerva St. John Ransom. After the Civil War, a group of Southern expatriates fled the South to escape...