Davidsonville was laid out with 48 lots around a public square, and although only a few have been examined by archeologists so far, they held houses, businesses, and outbuildings, with at least 10 primary structures known. By 1829, 90 families lived in or near Davidsonville, with probably close to that many houses. Houses stood on large lots with gardens and livestock areas, along with multiple outbuildings such as kitchens, smoke houses, privies, wells, barns, chicken houses, animal pens, cold frames, and wagon sheds. These lots functioned as miniature farmsteads that supported the household. While men led more public lives in business and politics, women usually focused on running the household and caring for children through cooking, cleaning, making and mending clothes, nursing the sick, and tending household gardens and livestock. Families with some wealth often owned or hired female slaves to handle many of these tasks. Home life also included social activities such as teas, dinners, and musical entertainment, as well as teaching children basic reading and writing and taking part in religious activities. The first houses at Davidsonville were probably one-room log houses similar to the Ficklin-Imboden Home at Powhatan Historic State Park 8 miles south on Arkansas Highway 25.