Bordersville

Mission
Preserve the history of Bordersville by collecting historical data and collecting oral histories.

Outcome
Prepare brochures, monograph, museum display, and student reports featuring the history of Bordersville.

Background
Bordersville, Texas is a black community on FM 1960 less than ½ mile northeast of Bush Intercontinental Airport and is served by Aldine ISD. The town was established in 1927 when a sawmill in Humble closed leaving the minority employees with no work and consequently nowhere to live. A new mill operated by Edgar Borders opened giving the residents employment. Borders supplied the workers with wooden shacks as housing in what now is Bordersville. In 1965 Houston annexed the area claiming it “the worst pocket of poverty in the city.” Dilapidated houses, unpaved streets, few utilities, little running water, no sewage system, and unkempt cemeteries characterize the area. Bordersville may possibly disappear as commercial development claims much of the land.