---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 430ff"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "430ff"
heading: "Horseshoe Bend National Military Park; establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/430ff"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §430ff. Horseshoe Bend National Military Park; establishment


When not less than five hundred acres of the non-[Federal lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=2) hereinafter described (together with improvements thereon) and known as the Horseshoe Bend Battle Ground on the Tallapoosa River, in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Alabama, shall have been acquired and transferred free and clear of all encumbrances to the United States without expense to the Federal Government, such [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall be, and are hereby, dedicated and set apart as a [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) System for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United States, under the name of the Horseshoe Bend National Military [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).


## Source credit

(July 25, 1956, ch. 729, § 1, 70 Stat. 651.)