Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§410oo Purposes

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

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Protect and tell Natchez, Mississippi’s history and preserve its sites, the stories of all people (including Black people, enslaved and free), social/political/economic change pre- and post-Civil War, and the Mississippi River–cotton trade.

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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 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60