The Cemetery was placed on the Civil War Discovery Trail in 1997 and the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.  It has received numerous National and State Awards in areas of historical preservation.

    It was a teenager by the name of David Andrew Taylor who was 
working on earning his Eagle Scouts Badge who brought new attention to the badly neglected cemetery.  In the mid-1980s, young “Andy” cleaned away the underbrush from around the four graves that have markers and from around the large bolder type memorial marker to the Soldiers who are buried in the cemetery.  Andy earned the Eagle Scout Badge and today, some 20 years later, is one of the leaders in keeping and maintaining the cemetery.
 
    Andy was also a charter member of the Gen. Patrick Cleburne Camp of 
Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) and through his work on the cemetery 
the group became concerned about the cemetery.   The SCV group, with 
the cooperation of the David O. Dodd Chapter of the United Daughters of 
the Confederacy who owned the property, began to clean all of the cemetery 
property.  This work was on-again-and-off-again for several years because of various interruptions.  In 1996 a good working relationship between the SCV & UDC was established and intense work began in earnest.
 
    Today the cemetery is beautifully landscaped and well kept.  It has a cable fence on three sides and it backs up to the Jefferson County Park, with a spring-fed creek running between the two properties.
 
    In 1912 The David O. Dodd Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy placed a large bolder marker in the cemetery to honor the 
Confederate Soldiers buried there. This marker and four civilian grave markers were all that kept the cemetery from being totally lost from the years of neglect.  There have since been 138 individual markers placed in the cemetery as memorials to the soldiers who are known to have died in the several hospitals located at Sulphur Springs during the Civil War.  They all died from disease.  Plans for future improvements include more individual markers as records are verified.

    Several other memorial markers have been placed within the cemetery 
in the past 10 years.  They include a memorial to the 9th Arkansas 
Infantry, who was the first unit to use the Sulphur Springs area as a 
Campground; a marker to the men who were enlisted on the Confederate 
Roll of Honor in Jefferson County; and a marker honoring the charter 
members of the David O. Dodd Chapter of the UDC, which was organized in 1896. There have been several interpretation signs placed within the 
cemetery describing the significant features therein.
 
    The Sulphur Springs Historical Preservation Association, with the cooperation with the UDC, SCV, and the Southeast Arkansas Civil War 
Heritage Trails Group, and the 1st Arkansas Re-enactors, are now the primary caretakers of the cemetery and work very hard to see that it is well maintained.   It is truly a magnificent memorial honoring those who spent time in the Pine Bluff area from 1861-1865.