The word tutu, in Danish, means a trumpet-like conch shell which was used to call the slaves to work.

Tutu is known as a densely populated residential area[4][5] and is second only to the territorial capital of Charlotte Amalie in terms of highest population density on the island of Saint Thomas.

It is home to approximately 20 percent of the island population and has a total area of 1.5 square miles.

[6] There have been numerous excavations in an area known as the Tutu Archaeological Village Site, which has discovered numerous artifacts from the native Arawak people who inhabited the area in the pre-Columbian era.

[7][8] The Tutu Plantation House, built c.1803, survived as of 1976, and was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.