Editing Bay Village, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[File:Bay View Hospital.jpg|thumb|left|[[Bay View Hospital]] (1874)]]
Before the first European-Americans arrived in the area around 1600, [[Erie people|Erie Indians]] lived in Bay Village and the surrounding areas. The most important Indian trail in Ohio is present-day Lake Road{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}, which is a main road in Bay Village. In that same century, what is now Bay Village, along with [[Avon Lake, Ohio|Avon Lake]], [[Avon, Ohio|Avon]], and [[Westlake, Ohio|Westlake]], was part of one territory. This territory was later called by the whites in a native language, "Xeuma", a term roughly meaning "those who came before us".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rmBKAAAAYAAJ&q=xeuma&pg=PA339|title=Western Reserve Historical Society Tracts 73–84|author=Western Reserve Historical Society|date=1892|language=en}}</ref>

The area belonged to [[Connecticut]] until 1803, the year in which Ohio became a state. Before 1803, the [[Connecticut Land Company]] sold and gave away land in the area to Connecticut citizens, who had lost their homes and farms during the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]]. Because many had lost their homes to fires during the war, this new area was named "the Firelands". One surveyor with the Connecticut Land Company was [[Moses Cleaveland]]. He came with his friends on horseback from Connecticut and stopped at the [[Cuyahoga River]] with his Indian guides in July 1796. The land was then divided into five townships. The area between the Cuyahoga River and The Firelands to the west was laid out in 1806. 
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Joseph Cahoon settled in what is now Bay Village in 1810. Bay Village was part of the original [[Dover Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio|Dover Township]], which comprised present-day Bay Village, Westlake, and portions of North Olmsted. By the turn of the 20th century, Dover would have a permanent population of roughly 2,200, with wealthy part-time residents who owned summer cottages on Lake Erie adding to this total in the summer months. In 1901, landowners in northern Dover forced an election to split from Dover Township, forming Bay Township. In 1903, Bay Village was incorporated, and the first mayor and council were elected. Ida Marie Cahoon, the last Cahoon descendant, died in 1917, leaving the family home and 115 acres of land to the city which is known today as Cahoon Memorial Park. John Huntington, one of the original partners of [[Standard Oil Company]], donated his summer estate to the [[Cleveland Metroparks]], which would later become the Huntington Reservation. Bay Village became a city on January 1, 1950, when it had reached a population of 6,917.<ref>{{cite web|title=City of Bay Village|url=http://www.cityofbayvillage.com/about-our-city.aspx|access-date=28 March 2013}}</ref>

With decades of growth starting in the 1930s, Bay Village became a prominent Cleveland suburb. Today, it is characterized by tree-lined streets of craftsman, Cape Cod, Tudor, and colonial style homes, as well as mansions along the Lake Erie shoreline.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/b/bay-village |website=Encyclopedia of Cleveland History |publisher=Case Western Reserve University |access-date=27 April 2023 |title=Bay Village |date=25 February 2022 }}</ref>

On August 6, 2024, Bay Village was hit by two EF-1 Tornadoes of five total in the greater Cleveland area, it left large parts of the area without power.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-12 |title=Tornado count now stands at 5 |url=https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/national-weather-services-confirms-tornado-hit-lorain-county-during-last-weeks-storms#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20NWS,%20an,injuries%20or%20deaths%20were%20reported. |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=News 5 Cleveland WEWS |language=en}}</ref>