Bay Village area is created.

Originally the Church Street District, it is developed by Ephraim Marsh after the city authorizes construction of a dam from Baldwin Mills to Fayette Street. Some 300 houses are subsequently built in the area bounded by today’s Columbus Avenue, Cortes Street, Tremont Street, and Stuart Street and soon become home to artisans, craftsmen, tradesmen and their families. The area becomes known as the Film District in the 1940s and 1950s, because of the presence of so many film distribution companies, and then subsequently known as Bay Village when it begins to gentrify in the 1960s.