The district consists of a collection of four county owned archaeological sites.

They are the location of a defensive palisade built by Sir Thomas Dale in 1613 around the original settlement at Bermuda Hundred, which he founded.

It is a two mile long, berm-and-ditch feature, running between the high banks overlooking the James and Appomattox Rivers.

The other sites within the district include a Middle Woodland Period (500 BC– AD 200) settlement, and a late 17th- or early 18th-century house with its associated dump.

This article about a property in Chesterfield County, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.