In 1898 Benjamin Franklin and Sarah Ellen Bondurant settled in the Fall River Basin. The Bondurants homesteaded 160 acres. Mrs. Bondurant volunteered to be post mistress and submitted the application to the federal government. The post office was known as Bondurant, and thus the town was named.
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