---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 440a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "440a"
heading: "Change in name of Fort McHenry Park"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/440a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §440a. Change in name of Fort McHenry Park


The Fort McHenry National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Maryland, authorized by sections [437](/usc/16/437.md) to [440](/usc/16/440.md) of this title, shall hereafter be called and known as the “Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine”, and all moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated for this [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) under previous designations may be used in this [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) as redesignated.


## Source credit

(Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 686, 53 Stat. 1405.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section consists of a part of act Aug. 11, 1939. The remainder, relating to changing the name of “Abraham Lincoln National Park” to “Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park” (now “Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park”) is set out as section 217 of this title.