Blue Ball, Ohio

{{Short description|Community in Ohio, United States}}

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Blue Ball is a community in Butler and Warren counties, in the U.S. state of Ohio.{{GNIS|1060884}} The community was established in 1820 at the intersection of the Dixie Highway (later U.S. Route 25). Blue Ball was annexed by nearby Middletown in 1994.{{cite web | url=http://www.enquirer.com/editions/1999/05/15/loc_old_inns_legacy.html | title=Old inns' legacy remains visible | work=The Cincinnati Enquirer | date=May 15, 1999 | accessdate=13 March 2018 | author=McNutt, Randy}}

Blue Ball was so named because that image appeared on its tavern's signboard for the benefit of the illiterate.{{cite web | url=http://www.co.warren.oh.us/genealogy/genealogy/placenames.htm | title=Warren County, Ohio Place Names | publisher=Warren County Genealogical Society | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313042457/http://www.co.warren.oh.us/genealogy/genealogy/placenames.htm | accessdate=13 March 2018| archive-date=2018-03-13 }}