[2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 9, 1992.

[1][2] Dawson was the site of two separate coal mining disasters in 1913 and 1923, and is a ghost town.

[2][3] The Phelps Dodge Mining Company has historically invested in the restoration of this cemetery, which was awarded recognition in 1991 from Representative E. Kelly Mora.

[2] The three sections of the burial ground are surrounded by barbed wire or iron pipe fence and it contains roughly 600 marked graves.

[2] The cemetery includes the graves of World War II casualties and coal miners; as well as immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and from Mexico.