The Hill is a small Italian enclave in the heart of St. Louis Mo. I did know that baseball greats Yogi Berra and Joe Garagiola came from St. Louis, but I never knew about The Hill.The neighborhood is generally defined by Manchester on the north, Southwest Avenue and Columbia to the south, Kings highway on the east, and Hampton on the west.
The area was originally populated by German and Irish immigrants. From the 1880’s, Italians mainly from Lombardy and Sicily laid claim to the area due to large number moving in for mining. Most lived in boarding houses initially, but began to move into permanent homes as their families came across.
During prohibition their was an African-American enclave and many blues songs were written in or about the area.
In the early 1970’s Interstate 44 split the neighborhood and 98 home were destroyed. Today “The Hill” is considered by many to be one of the surviving Little Italy’s in America.
Some great videos about “The Hill” below
Little Italy Chicago
Click here to join Italian Genealogy Group on Facebook Chicago doesn’t boast one of the largest “Little Italies” but having spent a lot of time there, I have eaten a lot of Chicago Style Pizza, and visited some great Italian Restaurants. Quartino’s Italian Village Little Italy, sometimes combined with University Village into one neighborhood, is on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The current boundaries of Little Italy are Ashland Avenue on the west and Interstate 90/94 on
Little Italy NYC Italian Roots
Visit Our Shop Bob talks with Sarah Gutmann about her Italian Roots from Little Italy in NYC and about her job on the Italian Team at Legacy Tree Legacy Tree as a company cultivates an atmosphere of support centered around our company values of CARE—Cooperation, Accuracy, Respect and Efficiency. It’s this commitment to providing exceptional quality and care to each client that has earned us the prestige of being the world’s highest-rated genealogy research firm.
Little Italy Providence RI
Click here to join Italian Genealogy Group on Facebook I learned a a lot about Providence RI while doing my podcast with Dr. Ed Iannuccelli yesterday. It’s going to be a great one to listen to, but in the mean while here’s a quick post about Providence RI’s role in Italian immigration. Italians began arriving from southern Italy in the 1870’s and by 1895 Federal Hill was about 50% Italian and 50% Irish. In the
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