Bill Coate
Woman died fighting for her kids
For The Madera Tribune Eva Fridley Garner. Eva Fridley and John Garner were married in Modesto and moved to Madera in 1890. She was 16,...
Bill Coate
Fire cleared the way for Courthouse Park
For The Madera Tribune It didn’t take long for Courthouse Park to take shape after a fire in 1909 cleared the property of every building...
Bill Coate
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights
For The Madera Tribune Dr. Albert Wilburn will be among the African-Americans featured in a Madera Method history project that will...
Bill Coate
One son died; one lived
For The Madera Tribune Navy Blue Angels; 1949. Maderan Raleigh Rhodes is shown third from the right. Welton Rhodes and William O. Justice...
Bill Coate
Robber got the drop on Madera police
For The Madera Tribune Walter Thomas, shown here second from the left in the 1930s. At the time he was one-fifth of the Madera police...
Bill Coate
Searching the cemetery: ‘Everything is findable’
For The Madera Tribune Raymond, CA, around the time that Henry Jones shot himself in the town’s blacksmith shop. Henry S. Jones is buried...
Bill Coate
Madera County’s first birthday celebration
For The Madera Tribune When Robert Stockton spoke of Mace’s Hotel, this was the building he remembered. Saturday was a red-letter day for...
Bill Coate
Sheriff saw Berenda coming
Photo courtesy of the Mariscotti Family Archives The Berenda Market in 1913. When Fresno County Sheriff Leroy Dennis chose not to run for...
