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Blue Ball, OhioBlue Ball, Ohio is a semi-ghost town in southwestern Ohio that was established in 1820 at the intersection of the Dixie Highway (later U.S. Highway 25) and what became State Route 122. It was originally called "Guilford" after Nathaniel Guilford, a prominent state politician at the time. Blue Ball straddles the line between Butler and Warren Counties and was in Lemon Township, Butler County, Ohio and Franklin Township, Warren County, Ohio. According to local legend, the town was on a busy stage coach between Dayton, Ohio and Cincinnati, Ohio along the Dixie highway, but kept being passed by because most stage coach drivers were illiterate and could not read the sign with the town's name on it. So, in 1862, the town council changed the municipal name to reflect a landmark, a blue-colored metal sphere that was suspended above the intersection of the two highways at the heart of town. A modern successor to that blue ball still hangs on Dixie Highway. Blue Ball was annexed by nearby Middletown, Ohio in 1993. References - Blue Ball Historical Society. Epoch of Blue Ball, Ohio. Blue Ball, Ohio?: The Society?, 1978.
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