Over the years, Tower Grove South has grown from a prairie to a rich agricultural area to an active business and residential neighborhood. Through these changes, the glue of the neighborhood has been its people and their strong desire to create a great community.
In the 1970s, Norbury Wayman was commissioned by St. Louis' Community Development Agency to record the history of the City's 27 historical neighborhoods. They provide a detailed viewpoint of the historical neighborhoods from the vantage point of the 1970's - obviously, information about the "current state" of individual neighborhoods does not apply to today's circumstances.
The modern Tower Grove South neighborhood fall within the historical Oak Hill neighborhood.
