The materials recovered from the Will Rogers State Park site lead archeologists to conclude that this site, on the west bank of the Verdigris, was occupied many thousands of years. The investigation in 1970 concentrated on the historic occupation, and it was determined that the location was a small satellite village of the larger Osage village established by Clermont, a chief of the Osage, located near Claremore Mound, about five miles south and on the east bank of the Verdigris. Much of the site had been washed away before salvage work began. Many of the recovered artifacts relate to the Osage trading partnership with the French, including pieces of brass and copper kettles which had been re-worked into metal arrowpoints, gun flints, glass beads, mirror glass, scissors and gun parts. Four sandstone abraders were recovered which may have been used for sharpening metal knives or metal points. About 85 pieces of flattened metal found in a small 225 square foot area are believed to relate to a point manufacturing workshop where brass kettles and other French trade goods were re-worked into arrowpoints. The site is believed to have been occupied from around 1802 until nearly 1840.

Conflicts between the Osage and the Western Cherokee, who lived between the White and Arkansas rivers, escalated during the early 1800s, and these conflicts culminated in a Cherokee raid on Clermont's village at Claremore Mound. Although historical accounts of the battle are sketchy, a two or three day battle during the spring of 1817 or 1818 led to great loss of life among the Osage. Several smaller skirmishes followed, but eventually the lands of both the Osage and the Cherokee were further reduced by treaties with the US government.