---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 448"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "448"
heading: "Pioneer National Monument; establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/448"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §448. Pioneer National Monument; establishment


When title to the sites of Fort Boonesborough, Boones Station, Bryans Station, and Blue Licks Battlefield, in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Kentucky, comprising noncontiguous tracts to be united by a [Memorial](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=2) Highway, together with such historical structures and remains thereon, as may be designated by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior as necessary or desirable for national-monument purposes and for the proper commemoration of the valor and sacrifices of the pioneers of “the West”, shall have been vested in the United States, said [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) and improvements shall be designated and set apart by proclamation of the President for preservation as a national monument for the benefit and inspiration of the people, and shall be called the “Pioneer National Monument.”


## Source credit

(June 18, 1934, ch. 573, § 1, 48 Stat. 982.)