Editing Westlake, Ohio (section)

==History==
The area now known as the city of Westlake was first settled by European Americans on October 10, 1810. At the time, it was part of Dover Township.

In 1901, the northern part of the township seceded to form [[Bay Village, Ohio|Bay Village]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hadsell|first1=Reign S.|last2=Rutherford|first2=Hazel|year=1986|title=A History and Civics of Dover Village|publisher=Dover Village Board of Education|page=41}}</ref> In 1912, a southern portion left to join [[North Olmsted, Ohio|North Olmsted]]. The remaining township residents formed Dover Village in 1913, taking with it a portion of [[Olmsted Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio|Olmsted Township]].

In order to avoid confusion with the city of [[Dover, Ohio|Dover]] in Tuscarawas County,<ref>{{cite news |author1=Stanton, Lysa |author2=Pfister, Dave |title=Dover becomes Westlake |url=http://westlakebayvillageobserver.com/read/2011/08/09/dover-becomes-westlake |access-date=August 11, 2014 |work=Westlake-Bay Village Observer |date=August 8, 2011}}</ref> Dover Village was renamed Westlake in 1940.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mangus|first1=Michael|last2=Herman|first2=Jennifer L.|title=Ohio Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bndxn4Qlt4EC&pg=PA574|year=2008|publisher=North American Book Dist LLC|isbn=978-1-878592-68-2|page=574}}</ref> The village of Westlake became a city in 1957.<ref name="about"/>

In September 1966, a house in Westlake which had recently been bought by John R. Compton, a black [[pastor]], was [[Firebombing|firebombed]]. No one was injured, although the bombing did cause around $10,000 of damage, {{inflation|US|10000|1966|fmt=eq}}.{{inflation/fn|US}} According to the ''[[Cleveland Press]]'', the mayor of Westlake, Alexander R. Roman, "criticized the parties involved in the sale of the home... He said no one was notified so the community could be prepared to accept a Negro family."<ref>{{Cite news|title = Silence about sale hit in home arson|date = 26 September 1966|work = [[Cleveland Press]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=q7gDAAAAMBAJ&q=john+r.+compton+westlake&pg=PA46|title = Burn cleric's $23,250 home in white suburb|date = 13 October 1966|work = [[Jet (magazine)|Jet]]|publisher = Johnson Publishing Company|access-date = 30 August 2015}}</ref>