On July 12, 1804, during their expedition into the Louisiana Purchase, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark stopped along the Nemaha River.

[3] Frederick H. Sterns, faculty the Peabody Museum of the Harvard University, led an excavation of the site in the year 1915.

In 1935, Strong's theory of the Oneota was evaluated by T. A. Hill, who was a member of the staff at the Nebraska Historical Society.

[3] Lamb and his crew also found several projectile points that varied in color, gray, pink, white, and brown and were made of flint.

The pits the crew dug were about 18 inches in depth and contained femurs, tibias, and fragments of skulls.

[6] In 1965, the Nebraska State Historical Society sent a crew led by John Garrett and Wendell Frantz on a ten-week excavation of the area.

[9] Many of the documents, research, and artifacts of the excavations of 1926, 1935, 1965, and 1979 are curated by the Archaeology Divisions of the Nebraska State Historical Society.