Its terms stated that if the county and city would appropriate a sum of not less than $40,000 for the purposes of purchasing grounds, Grove would endow the school in the amount of $50,000 for the perpetual maintenance and operation.

[2][3] Grove personally chose the site of the school on what was then known as Jernigan Heights, previously known as McCampbell's Hill, the highest point in west Tennessee.

[2][3] Classes began in September 1906 in the library and council room of Paris City Hall until Christmas when Grove Tower building was finished.

[2][3] Total expenditure in building the school was $46,400 paid in part by Henry county, the city of Paris and contributions from citizens.

[3] Grove High School's first football team, the Chill Tonics, were coached by co-principal Dr. Clovis Chappell.

Cavitt Hall, a two-story and basement dormitory was completed by the summer of 1910 with contributions from E. W. Grove, Col. and Mrs. O. C. Barton, J. C. Rainey, A. H. Lankford and other citizens of Henry County.

[2][3] When Grove died in January 1927, his estate settled with the school's board of trust to make a final payment of $81,000 and terminate any regular monies paid as part of his original endowment.

After the death of E. W. Grove, Jr. in May 1934, a building was completed in 1937 designed as a gymnasium with rooms for manual training and commercial shops.

Of this, $4,000 was used to repair Cavitt Hall after it burned on January 27, 1943, and the remaining funds were used to install lights and hardwood floors in the Grove Tower building.

[3] Weston Hall was completed in 1949 after the Tennessee State Board of Education issued an emergency warning that building facilities at Grove High School were inadequate for the enrollment.

[2] A new wing on the west side of Weston Hall was built in 1958 to house Grove Junior High School.

[2] A Centennial celebration was held on June 24, 2006, including a re-enactment of the cornerstone placement, speeches and a wreath-laying ceremony at the grave of E. W. Grove, Sr.