The commission may accept gifts, bequests and endowments from any private source, and may acquire real and personal properties that have statewide historical or archaeological significance by gift, purchase, devise or bequest, the title thereto to vest in the state.
Acquisition of historical or archaeological property
Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-11-107, under State Historian and Historical Commission.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-11-107