For The Madera Tribune Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till, are shown here just before the youth’s murder. Sixty-six years have passed...

Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society When Bernard (Barney) McCluskey was shot in 1919, he became the first Madera police...

Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society The first six men to be drafted into the Army from Madera in WWI with Herbert Macon,...

Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society Yee Chung is shown here with both of his wives. He started the Borden Chinese Cemetery...

For The Madera Tribune Giuseppe “Joe” Chiaradia. Giuseppe “Joe” Chiaradia passed away on September 6, 2021 at the age of 76, in Fresno,...

Madera Tribune File Photo Community volunteer and former broadcaster David “Ross,” Thornton, 80, died Oct. 18, following a long illness....

Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society Walter Yeager, shown here, was hanged in San Quentin for the murder of Madera traffic...

Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society In 1916, Jay Chapel used this hearse to transport the remains of an Indigent Chinese man...