Ballston is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States.

The name is derived from an early settler, Eliphalet Ball, a Presbyterian minister who relocated there from Westchester County, New York, in 1770.

In 1780, Loyalist raiders attacked the northern part of the town and took several prisoners of war to Canada.

Early settlers in this area feared attacks from Mohawks, who already inhabited the region and who resented the establishment of European buildings on their sacred grounds.

One of Ballston's historic sites is Indian Rock, a large boulder where Mohawk tribesmen reputedly took white captives (children, in some cases) to torture and kill them.

For a long time the depth of Ballston Lake was not determined, due to the multiple caves that prevented divers from going to the bottom.

[1] Ballston is bordered by the Town of Charlton to the west, Milton on the north, Malta on the east, and Clifton Park and a small portion of the Town of Glenville in Schenectady County on the south.

New York State Route 67 is an east-west highway in the northeastern part of Ballston.

The racial makeup of the town was 96.1% White, 1.1% African-American, 0.2% Native American, 1.0% Asian.

The Delaware and Hudson Railroad ran local passenger trains from Albany through Ballston Spa to Rouses Point (the last stop before the international border with Canada), in coordination with New York Central trains coming from Grand Central Terminal.