Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Bally, PA

Bally is a borough in Berks County that was originally called Goshenhoppen, a name possibly derived from an Indigenous word meaning "meeting place."

Mennonites and Catholics settled Bally in the early 18th century, and Ulrich Beidler built the area's first house of worship, a Mennonite church, in 1731.

Jesuit Father Theodore Schneider arrived in 1741 and built St. Paul's Chapel in 1743, now the Most Blessed Sacrament Church, which is the oldest existing Catholic place of worship in Pennsylvania and the fourth-oldest Catholic structure in the original thirteen colonies.

The town was renamed Churchville for its many churches, and when the post office opened in 1883 the name was changed again to Bally, in memory of the beloved Catholic pastor Father Augustine Bally, who had died the year before.

Bally was incorporated as a borough in 1912, with Henry Eddinger appointed as its first burgess.

Bally has traditionally been a home of Pennsylvania Dutch settlers and their descendants, and it sits in the heart of the farming region known as Butter Valley.

Bally Ribbon Mills, a woven-ribbon manufacturer that recently celebrated a century of textile innovation, is among the borough's internationally known industries, alongside Bally Block Co. and PB Heat LLC.

Great American Knitting Mills, later famous as Gold Toe socks, was founded in Bally and operated there for decades.

Bally had a population of 1,228 at the 2020 census, up from 1,090 in 2010, all within about half a square mile.

Bally students are served by the Boyertown Area School District.