This is one of three major surviving mound complexes in the Florida Panhandle.

Traces of a stone box cemetery were also found on the property, not far from the mound complex.

The mound complex, major earthworks built out of earth and shell middens, was constructed by ancient indigenous peoples.

It also contained several units of conjoined, auxiliary buildings connected by passageways immediately around the central mound complex.

Fifteen mound complexes earlier identified in the county have been lost to agriculture or urban development.

The national park contains nationally significant archaeological resources, including large earthwork and mound complexes.

Weigan site definition of the circular mound complex is based on five diagnosed features:

The site was once an impressive mound complex, with seven platform mounds surrounding a central plaza and an associated village area.

As with other mound complexes, the people built and sited the earthworks according to a complex cosmology.

Scholars have evaluated sufficient evidence to determine the mound complex was unquestionably built and occupied by peoples more closely related to the Muskogean-speaking Creeks.