Batesville is a city in Franklin and Ripley counties in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 6,520 at the 2010 census, making it the largest community in both counties but is not the county seat of either. The Batesville Casket Company is headquartered here. Medical technology company Hillrom has a substantial presence in the town, employing higher than 1,700 people at its office, innovation and manufacturing campus. Batesville is noted for its central location along with Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Louisville.

Central Batesville Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

Batesville was founded by George H. Dunn, owner of the John Callahan Trust Company. The company bought estate and created supplementary towns along rail lines that it began past Dunn was president of the Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railroad. Joshua Bates, who platted the town of Batesville, is thought to be the source of the name. On November 1, 1853, the first train from Cincinnati to Indianapolis passed through Batesville.

Once the railway opened, Dunn and Bates build up more buildings. George Sims laid out Batesville’s first supplement in 1858. The behind year, German immigrant Henry Boehringer became Batesville’s first major builder. A three-story building like a basement on East Pearl Street (formerly known as Broadway Street) became known as the Boehringer Hall because of the dance floor on the third story. The Catholic congregation used the basement since they had built their church.