Dogtown, St. Louis

It is located south of Forest Park, with its southeastern edge abutting the traditionally Italian section of town, The Hill neighborhood.

Rather, it is an area that includes four neighborhoods, and part of a fifth: Dogtown got its name as a small mining community in the mid-1800s.

[3] There was a concentration of small clay and coal mines in the area during that time, and the term "Dogtown" was widely used in the 1800s by miners to describe a group of small shelters around mines.

An article published on August 14, 1889 in the Missouri Republican is the earliest known reference to the name "Dogtown."

The 1889 newspaper article describes a lost 5-year-old boy who lived in "the classic precincts of Dogtown, near Cheltenham.