---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 450l"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "450l"
heading: "Fort Stanwix National Monument; establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/450l"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §450l. Fort Stanwix National Monument; establishment


When title to the site or portion thereof at Fort Stanwix, in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of New York, together with such buildings and other property located 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, shall have been vested in the United States, said [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) and improvements, if any, 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 “Fort Stanwix National Monument”: Provided, That such [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall include at least that part of Fort Stanwix now belonging to the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of New York.


## Source credit

(Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 592, § 1, 49 Stat. 665.)