Editing Batavia, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[File:BataviaOH3.JPG|thumb|left|[[Clermont County Courthouse]]]]
Batavia was surveyed on May 28, 1788, by Captain Francis Minnis, John O'Bannon, Nicholas Keller, Archelus Price, and John Ormsley. Virginian Ezekiel Dimmitt became the area's first settler in the fall of 1797. George Ely purchased the Minnis survey in 1807 and platted the town on October 24, 1814, possibly naming it after [[Batavia, New York]]. The Clermont County seat moved from [[New Richmond, Ohio|New Richmond]] to Batavia on February 24, 1824.<ref name="Crawford">{{cite web|title=History of Batavia Township |first1=Richard |last1=Crawford |access-date=September 16, 2013 |url=http://www.bataviatwpoh.org/about-us/our-history/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911224910/http://www.bataviatwpoh.org/about-us/our-history/ |archive-date=September 11, 2013 }}</ref> Batavia finally incorporated as a village on February 10, 1842.<ref>{{cite book|last=Everts|first=Louis H.|title=History of Clermont County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002054234126;view=1up;seq=275|year=1880|publisher=J.B. Lippincott & Co.|location=Philadelphia|page=255}}</ref>

The [[Norfolk and Western Railway]] stopped at Batavia from March 1877 to April 1971. The [[Cincinnati, Georgetown and Portsmouth Railroad]], an [[interurban]] railroad, also ran through town from 1903 to 1934. [[Norfolk Southern]] can sometimes pass through Batavia about 3 times a day.<ref name="Crawford" />

A petition to dissolve the village was created in September 2024 in response to a controversial proposal for a housing development.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Steffen |first1=Connor |title=Petition Aimed at Dissolving Village of Batavia Circulating Amid Controversy Over Development Project |url=http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/clermont-county/batavia-township-community/petition-aimed-at-dissolving-village-of-batavia-circulating-amid-controversy-over-development-project |access-date=21 September 2024 |work=WCPO |date=20 September 2024}}</ref>{{Relevance inline|date=September 2024}}