The Tuckasegee River (variant spellings include Tuckaseegee and Tuckaseigee)[1] flows entirely within western North Carolina.

The mound, although reduced in height, is visible on the 309 acres (1.25 km2) of land reacquired in 1996 by the federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

The EBCI conducted an archeological survey in 1997 that found evidence of thousands of years of habitation at this site and are keeping it undeveloped as sacred ground.

In each of their major towns, the Cherokee built a townhouse as their expression of public architecture on top of such a mound, if it existed.

The townhouse was the Cherokee expression of public architecture, emphasizing their decentralized society based on community consensus.