For The Madera Tribune
Historical look back over the past 100 years of my life
For The Madera Tribune Longtime Madera civil engineer Bertram Alfred King spent his formative years in Madera before moving to New...
Bill Coate
Mace was a practical politician
For The Madera Tribune Assemblyman Captain Russel Perry Mace is seen here during his last year in the California legislature. When he...
Bill Coate
Madera said goodbye to Dr. James
For The Madera Tribune For more than 50 years, Madera held a 4th of July parade down Yosemite Avenue in honor of American Independence....
Bill Coate
The Methodist preacher went to war
For The Madera Tribune The Owl Saloon was located on the north side of Yosemite Avenue in the “Tenderloin” district of town. It drew the...
Bill Coate
Chinatown had its revenge
For The Madera Tribune This 1925 photograph of Sugar Pine was taken three years after fire destroyed the little mountain village and its...
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Lu Teaford: Queen of the mountains
For The Madera Tribune Lu Bowman and Otis Teaford are shown here on the day of their wedding in 1914. The husband and wife team was...
Bill Coate
Judge Lynch once ruled Madera County
For The Madera Tribune This photograph of Spring Valley School in O’Neals was taken in 1894, one year after Victor Adams was hanged from...
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One armed painter went on the warpath
For The Madera Tribune Sheriff Jasper Lewis, shown here with his wife, had his hands full with a renegade, one-armed painter on the...
