Archaeological investigations took place on this site in 1988 and 1994, and it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The site includes a 3.3-mile segment of the old Natchez Trace as well as structural remains where the Choctaw Agency was located. In 1811, Silas Dinsmoor, the acting Choctaw agent, moved the agency from present day Quitman, Mississippi, to a new location along the south side of the "Natchez Road" being constructed by the United States Army. Work on this road began in 1801, using and improving local Choctaw and Chickasaw village trails linking Natchez to Nashville. The agency site, which included a house and agency headquarters, was located near here from 1811 to 1823, when it was moved farther north. Around 1805, a well-known feud began between Andrew Jackson and Silas Dinsmoor after Jackson attempted to travel through Choctaw territory without the "proper papers," leading to a confrontation between the two men. Jackson thereafter refused to stop at or stay at the Choctaw Agency and instead camped on the banks of White Oak Creek at the west end of the property off Old Agency Road, and he later used his political influence in Washington to have Dinsmoor removed from his post in 1813.
