The "small, old-fashioned house" that is Endview perches comfortably atop a little knoll with a spring flowing at the foot of the hill and prime farmland stretching out in all directions along gentle slopes. This inviting location that drew the Harwoods in the mid-eighteenth century to build a family home has attracted hunters, farmers, and soldiers for over 3,000 years.

Archaic campsites provide evidence that Native Americans visited the lands around Endview, perhaps to hunt or obtain fresh water, before 1,200 BC. Later sites show that Woodland Indians likewise hunted in the area and possibly even seasonally occupied the land right up to the time of the early European settlements of the seventeenth century.