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

# §450o. Andrew Johnson National Historic Site; authorization


When title to the site of the Andrew Johnson Homestead and the site of the tailor shop in which Andrew Johnson worked (now owned and administered by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Tennessee), located in Greeneville, Tennessee, together with such buildings and 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 historic site purposes shall have been vested in the United States, said [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) and improvements, if any, together with the burial place of Andrew Johnson, now administered as a national cemetery, shall be designated and set apart by proclamation of the President for preservation as a national historic site for the benefit and inspiration of the people and shall be called the “Andrew Johnson National Historic Site.”


## Source credit

(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 801, § 1, 49 Stat. 958; Pub. L. 88–197, § 1, Dec. 11, 1963, 77 Stat. 349.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“National historic site” substituted in text for “national monument” on authority of Pub. L. 88–197, which redesignated Andrew Johnson National Monument as Andrew Johnson National Historic Site.

### Executive Documents

### Establishment of Monument; Boundaries

Monument and boundaries established by Presidential Proc. No. 2554, Apr. 27, 1942, 56 Stat. 1955.