Balls Mills is an unincorporated community on Route 973 in Hepburn Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.[1] It is located seven miles north of Williamsport on Mill Creek, which flows southwest into the Lycoming Creek. English immigrant John Ball founded a saw mill in the village in the 1790s and, after he drowned, his son Bill Ball opened a wool mill and named the place Balls Mills with the apostrophe omitted.[2] Blooming Grove Road provides access to Williamsport, where it becomes Market Street. The village uses the Cogan Station zip code of 17728.[3]
References
- ↑ "Balls Mills". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ↑ "Origins of Town Names of Northeast PA". Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. Retrieved March 30, 2012.
- ↑ "Cogan Station Pennsylvania ZIP Code Map". Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 30, 2012.
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