During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, relic collectors occasionally visited the site, although few artifacts were discovered. The National Park Service and Harvard University's Lower Mississippi Survey carried out the first modern archaeological studies at Winterville in the 1940s. Lower Mississippi Surveyor Jeffrey P. Brain led excavations at Winterville in 1967. In 1939, the Greenville Garden Club led a community effort to purchase forty-two acres of the Winterville Mounds site and to convey the property to the City of Greenville. The grounds are open daily from dawn to dusk.
Admission is free.