[1] The Schmidt Site was settled in the Archaic period, at a time approximately 6000 to 4000 years before the present.
[3] The data suggest that the site was inhabited year-round over a number of years.
[4] The location of the Schmidt Site was first noted in modern times in the late 1950s.
In 1964, James Fitting from the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History continued the excavations.
Work was continued in 1971 by Richard Mock of Saginaw Valley State University.