[5] After earning his degree in Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University in 1873, Moore traveled to Europe and Central America; he traveled to Peru, crossed the Andes, and went down the Amazon River in 1876, and made a trip around the world, particularly in Asia in 1878–79, before returning home to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when his father died in 1878 and became president of the Jessup & Moore Paper Company.

[8][9] From his family fortune and sponsorship from Academy of Natural Sciences, Moore would travel to these sites with his crew mostly by water, in his steamboat named Gopher of Philadelphia.

[10] Moore documented his field excavations and travels from 1892 to 1918; there are forty-five notebooks with some located at Cornell University Library.

[8] From 1891 to 1895, Moore would set up his homebase at Palatka, Florida and start his excavations of Native shell mounds at St. Johns and Ocklawaha River.

[13] On March 24, 1936, in St. Petersburg, Florida, Moore died at the age of seventy-seven after enduring many years of chronic illness.

[14] In 1990, the Lower Mississippi Valley Survey of Harvard University, in conjunction with the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, created the C.B.