Blue Ball, Delaware

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Blue Ball is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.{{Cite web|url=https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/delaware/12-strange-town-names-delaware/|title=These 12 Towns In Delaware Have The Strangest Names You'll Ever See|date=March 23, 2020|website=OnlyInYourState}}{{Citation |last=Federal Writers' Project |title=The WPA Guide to Delaware: The First State |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vJ5OeFvqWRAC&q=Delaware%3A+A+Guide+to+the+First+State+By+Delaware+Federal+Writers%27+Project+Overbrook&pg=PA407 |page=422 |year=2013 |publisher=Trinity University Press (reprint) |isbn=9781595342072}} Blue Ball is located at the junction of U.S. Route 202, Delaware Route 141, and Delaware Route 261, north of Wilmington.{{Delaware road map|year=2008|access-date=July 21, 2016}} It takes it name from eponymous tavern.{{Cite web |title=Blue Ball Tavern Site Handout |url=https://deldot.gov/environmental/archaeology/blue_ball/pdf/blue_ball_tavern_site_handout.pdf |website=deldot.gov}}{{Cite web |title=The History of the Blue Ball Tavern & The Purpose of the Blue Ball |url=https://deldot.gov/information/projects/CompletedProjects/blue_ball/pdfs/15_historybbtav.pdf |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=deldot.gov}}{{Cite web |title=Blue Ball Barn |url=https://www.destateparks.com/wwwroot/downloads/celebrations/blue-ball-barn.pdf |website=www.destateparks.com}} The area was originally developed by the Weldin family.{{Cite web |title=Background Research |url=https://deldot.gov/environmental/archaeology/weldin/pdf/phaseIII/03_bkgrd_resch.pdf |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=deldot.gov}} Many of the structures in the area has since been demolished.{{Cite web|url=https://eu.delawareonline.com/story/news/2014/03/15/thennow-foulk-concord/6448397/|title = Then&Now: Foulk Road at Concord Pike}}