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
Nov 18, 2020
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...
Bill Coate
Nov 14, 2020
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...
For The Madera Tribune
Nov 11, 2020
The queen of Bethard Square
Madera County Historical Society From left to right, Emma Josephine Bethards, her grandmother Josephine Eugenia Lentz Bethards, and...
Bill Coate
Nov 11, 2020
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...
Bill Coate
Nov 7, 2020
Former sheriff Bates turns 95-years-old
Madera County Historical Society Ed Bates. Madera County’s unorthodox, ‘Wild-West’ sheriff celebrated his birthday on election day A...
Bill Coate
Nov 4, 2020
1918 fire brought ‘urban renewal’
Madera County Historical Society The last frame buildings on South Yosemite Avenue went up in flames in 1918. They were the Cottage...
Bill Coate
Nov 4, 2020
Mystery behind Borden
Madera County Historical Society The freight depot for the town of Borden. Passengers also used this depot. When the folks in charge of...
Bill Coate
Oct 31, 2020
