---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410eee–2"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410eee–2"
heading: "Adams National Historical Park"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410eee-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–CC — Adams National Historical Park"
---

# §410eee–2. Adams National Historical Park

- (a) **Establishment—** In order to [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) for the benefit and inspiration of the people of the United States as a national [historical park](/usc/16/410eee–1.md?p=1) certain properties in Quincy, Massachusetts, associated with John Adams, second President of the United States, his wife, Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States, and his wife, Louisa Adams, there is established the Adams National [Historical Park](/usc/16/410eee–1.md?p=1) as a [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) System.
- (b) **Boundaries—** The [historical park](/usc/16/410eee–1.md?p=1) shall be comprised of the following:
  - (1) All property administered by the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service in the Adams National Historic Site as of November 2, 1998, as well as all property previously authorized to be acquired by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410eee–1.md?p=2) for inclusion in the Adams National Historic Site, as generally depicted on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Adams National [Historical Park](/usc/16/410eee–1.md?p=1)”, numbered NERO 386/80,000, and dated April 1998.
  - (2) All property authorized to be acquired for inclusion in the [historical park](/usc/16/410eee–1.md?p=1) by this subchapter or other law enacted after November 2, 1998.
- (c) **Visitor and administrative sites—** To [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) the historical character and landscape of the main features of the [historical park](/usc/16/410eee–1.md?p=1), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410eee–1.md?p=2) may [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) up to 10 acres for the development of visitor, administrative, museum, curatorial, and maintenance facilities adjacent to or in the general proximity of the property depicted on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) identified in subsection (b)(1)(A).[^1]
- (d) **Map—** The [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) of the [historical park](/usc/16/410eee–1.md?p=1) shall be on file and available for public inspection in the appropriate offices of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “subsection (b)(1).”

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–342, § 4, Nov. 2, 1998, 112 Stat. 3201.)