It is located west of the North Fork Country Club, on the south side of Main Road (New York State Route 25).

[3] Ralph Solecki, a prominent American archaeologist, grew up nearby and conducted several digs on site.

[4] It remains today one of the few undisturbed Native American fortified village sites in the North East.

[6][7] The Corchaug tribe, also known as the Montaukett, originally had the land from the Nassau border to Montauk Point.

Depradation by the Narragansetts of Connecticut and decimation from smallpox caused to tribe to leave their land in the South Fork and with the help of whites built forts to ward off attacks.