It is part of a group of neighborhoods developed around the then Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway (later Ferrocarril General Roca) connecting La Plata with Buenos Aires, and Tolosa, Ringuelet, City Bell and Villa Elisa.

On 13 July 1882 the provincial government started construction of new railroad branches to connect the new provincial capital with the Buenos Aires Western Railway and the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway.

The La Plata - Empalme Pereyra (Villa Elisa) line was opened on 1 January 1889.

In 1889 at the inauguration of the Adolfo Alsina train station, the local landowners decided to start a partnership, subdivide part of the land into lots and found a town.

In this area, a theme park, the Republic of the Children, of around 53 ha (131 acres) was built in 1951 inspired by the tales and characters of the Brothers Grimm.