Much of the area consists simply of campsites, but the community cemetery is massive, occupying the entire third section and nearly half of the other two.

[3]: 51 Raymond C. Vietzen led an excavation of the Franks Site in 1941, finding skeletons and artifacts such as pottery.

The possibility of the two representing two different phases was considered, but this was easily disproven as many parts of the cemetery included skeletons of both sorts that had plainly been buried at the same time.

[2]: 79  The sheer size of the site and apparent number of inhabitants prompted Vietzen to declare that it "may truly be called an Erie City as it is far too vast to be simply classed as a village".

Located at the very edge of a river bluff, the site was named for landowner Isaac Moes;[2]: 40–41  Vietzen reported that the site also included a burial mound from which Moes and his family had excavated many skeletons and artifacts, including a fine birdstone.