[3] The site was featured in the 1848 publication, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley by Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis.

They state that grading ways are often seen "ascending sometimes from one terrace to another, and occasionally descending towards the banks of rivers or water-courses.

At the 203 foot wide section of the grade, "the walls upon the interior sides measure no less than twenty-two feet in perpendicular height."

As of 1848, trees and bushes were covering the works, and Squier and Davis suggest that passerby would most likely see the site as just hills, not a man-made installation.

On the left side of the graded way leads to the second terrace, which ends to a low area in the ground which is often filled with water.

Squier and Davis cite that in the past it is believed that the Scioto River had passed through the area near the terrace.

On previous excavations, one of the mounds was reported of housing a human skeleton of a girl wrapped in bark.

The graded way remains, creating what the Ohio Historical Society describes as "a natural drainage channel,".