The Fisher Farm site encompasses approximately 3.5 acres (1.4 ha) on the northern bank of Bald Eagle Creek.

Based on the tests conducted in 1976, the large-scale excavations of 1977 and 1978 resulted in the removal of hundreds of square meters of field and former streambed above Bald Eagle Creek.

Among the artifacts recovered in 1977 were nine burials and sixty-three other items of interest, while the 1978 excavation yielded pollen and carbon-14 samples useful for dating and reconstructing the profile of the site respectively.

[2]: 1 The Fisher Farm site has been crucial to the understanding of Late Woodland archaeology in central Pennsylvania.

Findings at the site have led to the proposal of a new model of Late Woodland culture in the region.