[3] Stratified in age-related sequence, the deposits represent every major prehistoric period from the Middle Archaic to the Late Woodland.

[3] The site's dominant component holds the remains of an early Late Woodland (500–1000 CE) village inhabited by people of the Clemson Island culture.

[2][3] The convergent streams and their two valleys made the site readily accessible to pre-Columbian people living in both drainage basins.

[4] Memorial Park contains the only area on the West Branch side of the point of land between the river and the creek that has not been disturbed by subsequent development.

In the 1970s, Conran A. Hay, a consultant, discovered the prehistoric site during an archeological survey conducted for the United States Army Corps of Engineers.