Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§410oo Purposes

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

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Protect and explain Natchez, Mississippi’s role in Southern history. Preserve its sites and buildings tied to all people — including Black people, enslaved and free — and its social, political, economic, river, and cotton-related history, especially before and after the Civil War.

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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

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102