Built by people of the Adena or Hopewell cultures during the Early to Middle Woodland era, circa 800 B.C. to 500 A.D., the Beam Farm Mound has stood on the uplands overlooking Anderson Fork for two thousand years, one thousand two hundred feet northwest. Notable among the thousands of commemorative burial mounds built by these associated prehistoric cultures throughout the Ohio Valley, it has been protected by its caretakers and remains unexcavated. Similar mounds have revealed formal tombs and evidence of elaborate funerary rituals.