It is situated on a natural levee on the east bank of Bayou Bartholomew.

In the 1870s Benjamin Brodnax of the Smithsonian Institution visited the site when it still had three of its mounds.

By the time Clarence Bloomfield Moore came in 1908 it only had two.

Excavations have shown that the site was first occupied from 400 and 700 CE during the Troyville period.

Construction of the mound is dated to 700 to 1200 CE during the Coles Creek period.