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Ballinger experienced a major flood of over six feet above its normal elevation on New Year's Day 1997, damaging several waterfront homes. This same flood caused the overflow of a nearby sewer line into the lake. A similar incident occurred in December 2007, flooding three homes and causing
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Ballinger was originally called Lake McAleer after Hugh McAleer, its first owner. McAleer was a logger and the proprietor of much of the land surrounding the lake. One Bartholomew family had a homestead on the island beginning in 1888, until the 1901 purchase of the land by
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