Blue Ball, Pennsylvania
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Etymology
The name originates from the Blue Ball Hotel, built more than two hundred years ago, which stood on the southeastern corner of the PA 23-US 322 crossroads. The inn was torn down in 1997.[2] In the early 18th century, John Wallace built a small building in Earl Town at the intersection of two trails created by native Americans, French Creek Path (Route 23) and Paxtang (Route 322). He hung a blue ball out front from a post[3] and called it "The Sign of the Blue Ball". Locals soon began calling the town "Blue Ball" after the inn. In 1833, Earl Town officially changed its name to Blue Ball. During Prohibition, the inn changed its name to Blue Ball Hotel.[2]
Name
The town's name has a suggestive second meaning, evoking the slang term "blue balls" (1916), which refers to the sexual condition of temporary testicular and prostate fluid congestion due to prolonged and unsatisfied sexual excitement.[4] Blue Ball is often listed among the "delightfully-named towns" in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, alongside Pleasureville, Intercourse, Mount Joy, Lititz, Bareville, Bird-in-Hand, Fertility and Paradise.[5][6][7][8][9]
Geography
Blue Ball is in eastern Lancaster County, in the western part of East Earl Township. Pennsylvania Route 23 (Main Street) leads northeast Script error: No such module "convert". to the Pennsylvania Turnpike at Morgantown and southwest through New Holland Script error: No such module "convert". to Lancaster, the county seat. U.S. Route 322 (Division Highway) crosses PA 23 in the center of Blue Ball; it leads northwest Script error: No such module "convert". to Ephrata and southeast Script error: No such module "convert". to Downingtown.
Shirks Run which flows through Blue Ball, leading northwest to the Conestoga River. It has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) like the remainder of Lancaster County. Average monthly temperatures range from 30.0 °F in January to 74.6 °F in July. [1] The hardiness zone is 6b.
Demographics
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| Census | Pop. | Template:Sronly | %± |
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| 2010 | 1,031 | — | |
| 2020 | 1,084 | Script error: No such module "String".% | |
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Notes
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- ↑ https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/pennsylvania/blue-ball
- ↑ a b SUNDAY NEWS, LANCASTER, PA,Pg. D-1, July 13, 1997
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- ↑ Ward's quarterly (1965) p.109 quote: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"....in such delightfully-named towns in Pennsylvania Dutchland as his native Mount Joy, and neighboring Lititz, Blue Ball, Bareville, Intercourse, Bird in Hand, and Paradise.
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Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"."...but anyone who names their towns Mount Joy, Intercourse, and Blue Ball can't be all bad. Obviously they have more on their minds than just religion."
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Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Which brings us to Intercourse. You can imagine my delight when I found out that the Amish call the town of Intercourse, Pennsylvania, their home. There seems to be a lot of explanations from locals trying to pass off the name as a bastardization of 'Enter Course' and so on, but seeing as there are other local towns called Blue Ball, Bird In Hand, and Mount Joy, I suspect that the person responsible had a very juvenile sense of humour. The town sits in upstate Pennsylvania and is a tourist trap for anyone even remotely curious about the Amish way of life.
- ↑ Rand McNally and Company (1978) p.52
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Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".In the years since then many of these names have been changed to more elegant ones,2 and others have vanished with the ghost towns they adorned, but not a few still hang on. Indeed, there are plenty of lovely specimens to match them in the East, in regions that were also frontier in their days, e.g., the well-known cluster in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Bird-in-Hand, Bareville, Blue Ball, Mt. Joy, Intercourse, and Paradise.
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References
- Anderson, William Charles (1979) Home sweet home has wheels: or, Please don't tailgate the real estate
- Henry Louis Mencken, Raven Ioor McDavid (1963) The American language: an inquiry into the development of English in the United States, Volume 1
- Museums Association (2006) The Museums journal, Volume 106, Issues 1-6, Indexes to papers read before the Museums Association, 1890–1909. Compiled by Charles Madeley.
- Paul Krassner (1963) The Trial of Eros Magazine in The Realist No.44, pp. 1, 11-23
- Rand McNally and Company (1978) Vacation & travel guide
- Ward's quarterly, Volume 1, 1965
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