In an area commonly known today as The Weirs (for the semi-permanent fishing weirs the natives had built on the river), the village lay on the north bank of the Winnipesaukee River at the outlet of Lake Winnipesaukee in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire.

Colonial reports document that the site was abandoned substantially in 1696, when most of New Hampshire's remaining native population withdrew to join the Pequawket at present-day Fryeburg, Maine.

Finds at the Aquadoctan site yield evidence of habitation back to the Paleo-Indian period (c. 7600 BCE).

The site was one of the first in northern New England to yield evidence of human activity in that prehistoric time period.

[4] A 15-acre (6.1 ha) section of the village site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.