This neighborhood is a forty-two-square-block bounded by St. Louis Avenue on the north, Martin Luther King Drive on the south, Sarah on the east and Taylor on the west.

[3] After St. Louis was founded in 1764, the area now known as The Ville was set aside as part of the Grand Prairie Common Fields.

[3] In the early 19th-century the first White settlers arrived in the area, mostly moving from the states of Virginia and Kentucky.

[3] Some of the early landowners had recognition in local street names including: Kennerly, Wash (now Whittier), Goode (now Annie Malone Drive), and Taylor.

The Antioch Baptist Church on Market St., whose red brick Gothic-style building was constructed in 1921 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was an important cultural center of the Black community during segregation and beyond.