Balls Mills is an unincorporated community on Route 973 in Hepburn Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. 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. Bloomingrove Road provides access to Williamsport, where it becomes Market Street. The village uses the Cogan Station zip code of 17728.
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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