Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§450bb–3 Acquisition of Additional Lands
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LXI — NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS › § 450bb–3
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior may acquire approximately thirty acres — the Storer College site, the original site of John Brown’s "Fort," and the old Federal armory — and add them to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. The land is to provide historic properties and park administrative facilities and must be obtained in the way the law describes later.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §450bb–3
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To further the commemorative purposes of sections 450bb to 450bb–2 of this title, by providing historic properties and administrative facilities, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire, in the manner hereafter stated, the Storer College site, the original site of John Brown’s “Fort” and the old Federal armory, comprising altogether approximately thirty acres, for addition to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.
Legislative History
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Harpers Ferry National Historical Park” substituted in text for “Harpers Ferry National Monument” in view of redesignation of Harpers Ferry National Monument as Harpers Ferry National Historical Park by Pub. L. 88–33, classified to section 450bb–6 of this title.
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Citation
16 U.S.C. § 450bb–3
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102