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We would like to provide the residents of  Bay Village  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Bay Village Home page. The Bay Village Home page provides as much information as possible on Bay Village. Knowing Bay Village’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Bay Village’s Home page, you will also find Bay Village’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Bay Village has a population of 15258. 51.3% of Bay Village’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.7 are female. 63.6% of Bay Village is married and 92.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $257,049, and the average rent is $1,141. Household median income in Bay Village is $102,938, and the individual median income is $54,568. Bay Village’s Ethnic is the following: White(94%), Hispanic(2.5%), Multiple(2.3%), Other(2.1%), Black(1.1%), Asian(0.6%).


Before the first European-Americans arrived in the area around 1600, Erie Indians lived in Bay Village and the surrounding areas. The most important Indian trail in Ohio is present-day Lake Road, which is a main road in Bay Village. In that same century, what is now Bay Village, along with Avon Lake, Avon, and 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".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 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. Joseph Cahoon settled in what is now Bay Village in 1810. Bay Village was part of the original Dover Township, which comprised present-day Bay Village, Westlake, and portions of North Olmstead. By the turn of the 20th century, Dover would have a permanent population of roughly 2,200, with 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.


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