Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§410gggg–1 Administration; Establishment of Museum
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LIX–EEE — HOMESTEAD NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 410gggg–1
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior must prepare and keep the land as a lasting memorial to the hardships and pioneer life of early Western settlers. He must build museum buildings to hold books and farm tools used to develop the plains, and he may use the land for other things that help preserve the history tied to the homestead law.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §410gggg–1
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It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to lay out said land in a suitable and enduring manner so that the same may be maintained as an appropriate monument to retain for posterity a proper memorial emblematical of the hardships and the pioneer life through which the early settlers passed in the settlement, cultivation, and civilization of the great West. It shall be his duty to erect suitable buildings to be used as a museum in which shall be preserved literature applying to such settlement and agricultural implements used in bringing the western plains to its present high state of civilization, and to use the said tract of land for such other objects and purposes as in his judgment may perpetuate the history of the country mainly developed by the homestead law.
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Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 450w of this title.
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Citation
16 U.S.C. § 410gggg–1
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102