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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§410u Preservation of Historic Sites

Title 16 › Chapter 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter LV— MINUTE MAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 410u

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior may make cooperative agreements with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, its local governments, corporations, associations, or private individuals to preserve and explain historic sites, buildings, and properties along the route(s) where important events happened on April 18 and 19, 1775 in Boston, Cambridge, Medford, Somerville, and the towns of Arlington, Brookline, Concord, Lexington, and Lincoln, including the area between Fiske Hill and the North Bridge described in section 410s. The Secretary may also put up and care for tablets or markers under the Act of August 21, 1935 (49 Stat. 666).

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Title 16, §410u

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To provide further for the preservation and interpretation of historic sites, structures, and properties lying along the entire route or routes where significant events occurred on the 18th and 19th of April 1775, in the cities of Boston, Cambridge, Medford, and Somerville, and the towns of Arlington, Brookline, Concord, Lexington, and Lincoln, including the area generally described in section 410s of this title as lying between Fiske Hill and the North Bridge, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in accordance with the purposes of this subchapter, to enter into cooperative agreements with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, political subdivisions thereof, corporations, associations, or individuals, and to erect and maintain tablets or markers, in accordance with provisions contained in the Act approved August 21, 1935, entitled “An Act to provide for the preservation of historic American sites, buildings, objects, and antiquities of national significance, and for other purposes” (49 Stat. 666).11 See References in Text note below.

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References in Text

The Act approved August 21, 1935, entitled “An Act to provide for the preservation of historic American sites, buildings, objects, and antiquities of national significance, and for other purposes” (49 Stat. 666), referred to in text, is act Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 593, 49 Stat. 666, known as the Historic Sites Act of 1935 and also as the Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities Act, which enacted sections 461 to 467 of this title. The Act was repealed and restated as section 1866(a) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 102303 and 102304 and chapter 3201 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs, by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 4(a)(1), 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3094, 3260, 3272. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. For disposition of former sections of this title, see Disposition Table preceding section 100101 of Title 54.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 410u

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60