Local History

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Historical Maps of Madera County

• 1864 Map of Central California
• 1879 Map of Central California
• 1911 Map of Madera County
• 1914 Map of Madera County
• 1923 Map of Madera County

Madera Biographies

• Martha Baird
• William F. Baird
• William O. Breyfogle
• Francis LeRoy Brown
• Emanuel M. Capurro
• William Maxwell Conley
• John Francis Daulton
• Jack G. Desmond
• Frank G. and Lucile Heiskell Desmond
• Frank Femmons
• William King and Agnes Daulton Heiskell
• Stelio and Eva Manfredi
• Smith Norris
• Frank Edward Osterhout
• Return Roberts
• Rabbiosi Family
• George Teaford
• Colden & Kit Whitman

Communities

• Ahwahnee
• Berenda
• Fairmead
• Raymond
• Storey

Realia

• Coins and Tokens
• Courthouse Commemorative Spoon

Early Publications

• McKenney's Pacific Coast Business Directory 1880
  (see Fresno County)
• Madera 1892
• Light on Madera County 1905
• Fertile Madera 1906
• Taproots of Wealth1909
• Madera: pathway to prosperity 1910
• Madera County (Sunset) 1911
• Fortunes in Free Lands 1911
• "Madera, Transformed by Water and Electricity" 1913
• Manual of the Elementary Schools of Madera County 1926
• Polk Directory 1924
• History of Fresno and Madera Counties 1933
• Chamber of Commerce Bulletin 1941
• Country Living1952

Time Line

• 1878 Description of Madera
• 1888 Description of Madera
• 1888 Viticulture
• 1889 Bank of Madera
• 1889 John Brown Colony
• 1906 Courthouse Fire
• 1906 Madera High School Graduating Class
• 1910 Courthouse Park
• 1915 Golden State Highway
• 1916 Shakespearean Pageant
• 1920 Madera Woman's Improvement Club Recital
• 1941 WPA
• 1945 The Fruit Basket
• 1946 Griggs Taxi Service
• 1948 American War Mothers
• 1952 Ennis Dairy
• 1956 Crop Dusting
• 1956 Grain Harvest
• 2004 Daulton Ranch Sesquicentenial

Madera Schools

• Madera Schools Local History Project 1938
• Berenda School
• East Side Grammar
• Lincoln Grammar
• Madera Union High School
• Madera Union High School Graduates 1897-1956
• Madera Union High School Class of 1927
• John Adams School Class of 1966

Scenes of Old Madera

• Collection 1
• Collection 2