Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§410oo Purposes

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER LIX–M— - NATCHEZ NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 410oo

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Protect and explain Natchez, Mississippi’s role in the history of the American South. It must save and tell the stories of the places and buildings tied to all people who lived there—from the earliest inhabitants to today—including Black people who were enslaved and those who were free—and show the area’s social, political, and economic changes (especially before and after the Civil War) and its commercial and farming history, with a focus on the Mississippi River and cotton.

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Title 16, §410oo

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The purposes of this subchapter are to—

(1)preserve and interpret the history of Natchez, Mississippi, as a significant city in the history of the American South;

(2)preserve and interpret the sites and structures associated with all the peoples of Natchez and its surrounding area from earliest inhabitants to the modern era, and including blacks both slave and free;

(3)preserve and interpret the region’s social, political, and economic development, with particular emphasis on the pre- and post-Civil War eras; and

(4)preserve and interpret the region’s commercial and agricultural history, especially in relation to the Mississippi River and cotton.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 410oo

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73