Editing Madera, California (section)

==History==
The town was named after the Spanish term for lumber.<ref name=CGN /> The town was laid out by the [[Madera_Sugar_Pine_Company|California Lumber Company]] in 1876.<ref name=CGN /> From 1876 to 1931, a {{convert|63|mi|adj=on}} [[log flume|water flume]] carried lumber from the mountains to Madera, where the lumber was shipped by train.

The first post office at Madera opened in 1877.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kreamer |first=Matthew |date=October 10, 1999 |title=About Madera |work=The Fresno Bee}}</ref><ref name=CGN>{{California's Geographic Names|798}}</ref> On May 16, 1893, Madera County officially became a county of the state of California<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.madera.gov/home/our-community/welcome-to-madera/|title=Welcome to Madera / Our History|access-date=October 27, 2020|archive-date=October 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030234440/https://www.madera.gov/home/our-community/welcome-to-madera/|url-status=live}}</ref> and the town incorporated as the City of Madera on March 27, 1907.<ref name=CGN /> One of the city's first African Americans to hold an elected office was Rev. Naaman N. Haynes, who was voted in as a Madera Unified School District school board trustee in the 1960s.<ref>"Correction," The Madera Tribune, February 12, 2015, Page A2</ref>

Landmarks include the historic [[Madera County Courthouse]], the notable Madera water tower, and a fully operational drive-in movie theater.<ref name="drive-in fb">{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/MaderaDriveIn201/ |title=Madera Drive-In Facebook Page |website=[[Facebook]] |access-date=July 11, 2020}}</ref>

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Madera Flume Celebration 1900.jpg|Madera celebrates the completion of the "world's longest lumber flume" on October 27, 1900.<ref name="thunder">{{cite book |last=Johnston |first=Hank |date=1968 |title=Thunder in the Mountains: The Life and Times of Madera Sugar Pine |page=11  |publisher=Trans-Anglo Books |isbn=0-87046-017-X}}</ref>
Madera Flume Terminus 1901.jpg|alt=The Madera flume terminus circa 1901|The Madera flume terminus {{Circa|1901}}<ref name="thunder" />  
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