Claim · the grey record
Bay Village — formerly “the Church Street District”
An attested claim that Bay Village was formerly named “the Church Street District”. An earlier name for the same blocks. Attested by the English Wikipedia article on Bay Village, Boston. The archive records the attestation; it does not rule on it.
Bay Village was formerly named the Church Street District
This is an attestation. The archive records who asserts it, since when, and on what evidence. It does not rule on whether it is true.
- Subject
- Bay Village
- Predicate
former_name- Attested by
- English Wikipedia
- Attestor kind
- reference work
- Attested since, as stated
- as at the date of retrieval
- Attestation strength
- attested — a count of independent attestations, never a truth value
- Variant note
- An earlier name for the same blocks.
Evidence
English Wikipedia, “Bay Village, Boston”, retrieved 2 September 2026
Through its history, the neighborhood has been known at different times as the Church Street District, South Cove, and Kerry Village.
· source
Related records
- about — Bay Village
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:claim:bay-village-former-name-the-church-street-district
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/claim/bay-village-former-name-the-church-street-district
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/claim/bay-village-former-name-the-church-street-district.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- English Wikipedia — source of record
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (open)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- Bay_Village,_Boston
- Attribution
- Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Rights as stated
- Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the plain-text extract of the attesting article from the MediaWiki API | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | verify | searched the article text for the name at a word boundary; a candidate the source did not contain was refused and the refusal recorded | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 3 | quote | took the first sentence containing the name, unaltered, as the evidence for this claim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |