Ball Ground is a growing community located just north of Canton.
Two and a half miles to the east of the town, near the
confluence of Long-Swamp Creek and the Etowah River, is the
traditional site of 'Taliwa', the most decisive battle of the
war between Cherokee and Creek Indians in the 1700's. Cherokee
history tells that the conflict over territory was determined by
a stickball game here. Before the railroad came through in 1882,
the community was almost purely agricultural, consisting of two
country stores and a few dwellings. After the railroad, the town
grew as a result of the marble-working industry.