Bordenville was a thoroughfare in the 1860’s for miners and passing traffic. In 1865 Timothy and Olney Borden built a 2000 acre ranch, sawmill, general store and a post office. Bordenville’s had a population of 50 with a blacksmith, Stage stop, school house and a mining surveyor. Bordenville’s school was the site of a grisly murder of all 3 school board members. Widower Banjamin Ratcliff became enraged at the distasteful gossip about his kids which was being spread by the head of the school board and ended up shooting them all. Ratcliff turned himself in at Como and was tried, hung at Canon City then buried in the back hills of Bordenville.Submitted by James Montoya