Bill Coate
Years ago in the week of March 19
Courtesy of The Madera County Historical Society Twenty-five years ago, Al Cheng, president of the Chinese Historical Society of America,...
Bill Coate
Cook, killer both lived in Coarsegold
Courtesy of Madera County Historical Society By 1880, this grizzled old miner, who was known as Alapoleno, as well as Santa Claus, was...
Bill Coate
Years ago in the week of March 12
Madera Tribune File Photo 25 years ago, Washington School second grade teacher Frances Brown wished her student, Michael Wall, a “top o’...
The Madera Tribune
Missing Coarsegold teen found dead in pond
Madera County Sheriff’s divers found the body of a missing 16-year-old Coarsegold girl today in the driver’s seat of her car, which was...
Bill Coate
Years ago in the week of March 5
Courtesy of The Madera County Historical Society Local pickets carried these signs 50 years ago in front of the Madera County Government...
Bill Coate
Taking another look at a lynching
Courtesy of The Madera County Historical Society S.W. Westfall served two terms as Madera County sheriff. He spent the better part of his...
Bill Coate
Years ago in the week of Feb. 26
Courtesy of Madera County Historical Society Madera High wrestling coach Corky Napier talks to his son Jason following a match in the...
Bill Coate
Rough and Ready Rapelje, Madera’s bounty hunter
Courtesy of The Madera County Historical Society The posse that battled train robbers John Sontag and Chris Evans at Stone Corral, June...
