Arwine Cemetery was named for local pioneer Daniel Arwine, who on June 23, 1879, deeded six acres for school, church, and cemetery purposes in an area that then had none of the three. Those acres became the site of a 600-plot cemetery and the Red Sulpher Springs School, whose building also served as the community church, though there is no evidence that the Arwine Church was affiliated with any denomination or association. After the building deteriorated, a small tabernacle was erected on the same location and served only as a shelter for workers tending the cemetery or digging graves, and no physical evidence of either structure survives. After denominational churches were established in the Hurst and Bedford communities, church and funeral services were no longer held there. Katy Arwine, daughter of Drake Arwine, is believed to have been the first person buried there in 1879, and Daniel Arwine and his wife Julia were also buried there. The cemetery contains 279 graves, most bearing the names of the area's early settlers and their descendants. In 1975, Mrs. Georgia Ward and other concerned citizens formed the Arwine Cemetery Association, began raising money for the cemetery's perpetual care, and in May 1975 the superintendent of HEB ISD presented the association with the deed to the cemetery.