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A crash has shut down Spalding Drive between Clay Drive and Ball Mill Road in Sandy Springs, according to the Sandy Springs Police Department.

The journey that brought the Ball family to Georgia is one that many families made during the early 1800s. Peter Ball’s father, William, was born in Virginia and made his way to South Carolina; Peter Ball and his family moved from South Carolina to Georgia in the 1830s when land became available after the forced removal of the Native Americans. John W. Ball sits for a portrait on his 75th birthday at his farm on Roswell Road in 1915.  SPECIAL Peter Ball married Margaret Robertson in 1828 in South Carolina. He accumulated a large amount of land, acco...