[1] The site is on a high hill just north of the junction of Clear Creek and the Black Fork of the Mohican River.
[2] The village had originally been settled by Native Americans of the Mingo (a tribe belonging to the Eastern Algonquian group).
[8] Hell Town was located along a "war trail" used by Native Americans in the region, which ran from a point about 30 miles (48 km) south of Sandusky, Ohio, north-northeast into the Cuyahoga River valley.
[9] Anthropological investigations in the late 19th century found that the site of the village was a high mound composed primarily of sandstone rocks, held in place with packed earth.
[1] A number of Lenape graves existed at the site until 1881, but local farmers plowed them under over the next two years.