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

# §410oo. Purposes


The purposes of this subchapter are to—

- (1) [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) and interpret the history of Natchez, Mississippi, as a significant city in the history of the American South;
- (2) [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) and interpret the sites and structures associated with all the peoples of Natchez and its surrounding [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) from earliest inhabitants to the modern era, and including blacks both slave and free;
- (3) [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) and interpret the region’s social, political, and economic development, with particular emphasis on the pre- and post-Civil War eras; and
- (4) [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) and interpret the region’s commercial and agricultural history, especially in relation to the Mississippi River and cotton.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–479, § 1, Oct. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 2324.)