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Princeton Heights Information
Princeton Heights is an older South St. Louis residential neighborhood
located roughly near the major intersection of Kings highway and Gravois.
Princeton Heights has many features of a homey small town, but it happens to be
in a big city. If you seek a neighborhood where people still sit out on porches,
hang laundry in the back yard and chat over back fences about the upcoming
church picnic, this is the place.
Around 1900, when this area was mostly farmland, it was Gardenville. The
community was known as Gardenville, acquiring its name in the beginning from the
beautiful bounteous garden truck farms in the south area of the City of St.
Louis when Gardenville was the center of the universe and before the world
became urbanized. This was a time when Nagel was known as Brunzwick, Sunshine
was known as Upton and Wilmore Park was the old Ellebeck's Farm. Produce farmers
grew their goods here and then trucked them a few miles away to Soulard Market
near downtown St. Louis or they hauled their tomatoes, carrots, and melons
through the City's neighborhoods as produce hucksters. But as St. Louis grew,
housing took over all the old fruit and vegetable plots. By 1920 most were gone.
We still have our backyard tomato mavens, of course, but we're pretty urban now.
Priceton Heights has came a long way from the old dirt roads of long ago.