The mound dates to the Late Woodland-Mississippian Period (AD 1200–1650), during which more complex societies and practices evolved, including chiefdoms and religious ceremonies.

(Decaying cedar posts remained in the ground in the late 1800s, and were frequently struck by plows).

Lucien Carr, assistant curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Boston, led an excavation here in 1877.

The mound has remained undisturbed until a 2019 excavation led by Maureen Meyers, a professor at the University of Mississippi.

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