

Roosevelt just missed the lion
For The Madera Tribune S.S. Anderson poses with the mountain lion he killed in a grove of trees near Berenda’s Vignolo Hotel in 1903. It...
Bill Coate
Dec 9, 2020


Taking the Titanic to Madera
For The Madera Tribune Argene and Sebastino del Carlo on their wedding day, Feb. 20, 1912. Two months later, they were on their way to...
Bill Coate
Dec 5, 2020


Pogue heads a long line of sheriffs
For The Madera Tribune Madera County Sheriff Tyson Pogue. He was sworn into office on June 16, and represents about 1,000 years of county...
Bill Coate
Dec 2, 2020


One last look at Madera’s ‘Chinatown’
Madera County Historical Society Frank Tuck, 2nd from the left, leads a delegation of history lovers in unveiling the plaque honoring the...
Bill Coate
Nov 28, 2020
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...
For The Madera Tribune
Nov 25, 2020


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
Nov 25, 2020


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...
Bill Coate
Nov 21, 2020
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...
For The Madera Tribune
Nov 18, 2020









