[1] The mound and village area were constructed during the prehistoric Mississippian culture period.

The site features include a village with a central plaza area, a rectangular platform mound, the borrow pit where the fill for the mound was quarried, and a surrounding wooden palisade.

The pottery of the Big Eddy phase (1450 - 1560) is related to the pottery of the Moundville III phase (1450-1550 CE) of the large paramount chiefdom at the Moundville site located to the northwest of Tuskigi on the Black Warrior River.

It is unknown what the original inhabitants and builders of the mound called the site.

[1][3][4] The site is preserved as part of the Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson State Historic Site and is one of the locations included on the University of Alabama Museums "Alabama Indigenous Mound Trail".