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The Ball Ground Historic District in Ball Ground, Georgia is a 22 acres (8.9 ha) historic district which is roughly bounded by Highway 5 to the west; Commerce Street and Groover Street to the north; Valley Street and Gazaway Lane to the east; and Stripling Street, the southern terminus of Old Canton Road, and Depot Street to the south.
1.9 mi (3.1 km) outside of Ball Ground's city limits [91] in unincorporated Ball Ground [92] is the McGraw Ford Wildlife Management Area, a 2,255 acres (913 ha; 3.523 sq mi) wildlife management area along the Etowah River that is managed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources with various multi-purpose trails along with fishing and ...
Col. Joseph Matthäus Ball, grandfather of Gen. George Washington, was born in May 1649 in England, settled in Virginia during a period of population growth in the region when the Millenbeck community was in Northumberland County prior to the formation of Lancaster County.
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Joseph Ball (May 2, 1649 – July 11, 1711) was an English-born justice, vestryman, lieutenant colonel, and Burgess in the Colony of Virginia. [ 1 ] Ball was the father of Mary Ball Washington and the maternal grandfather of George Washington , the First President of the United States .
Charles was born near Hunting Creek in Stafford County, Virginia (now Fairfax County) to Augustine Washington (1693-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789), an orphan and heiress of Col. Joseph Ball of Lancaster County, Virginia. His father died when he was five years old.
Washington's headquarters staff consisted of a military secretary, initially Colonel Joseph Reed, followed by four aides-de-camp, William Palfrey, Stephen Moylan, Richard Cary, and Robert Hanson Harrison. They managed Washington's correspondence, made copies of each day's general orders to be distributed to the commanding officer at each ...
Map Appling County: 001: Baxley: 1818: Land ceded by the Creek Indians in the Treaty of Fort Jackson in 1814 and the Treaty of the Creek Agency in 1818: Colonel Daniel Appling (1787–1818), a hero of the War of 1812: 36.26/sq mi (14.00/km 2) 18,457: 509 sq mi (1,318 km 2) Atkinson County: 003: Pearson: 1917: Clinch and Coffee counties