---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460–1"
heading: "Inclusion of Ackia Battleground National Monument and Meriwether Lewis National Monument"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXV — National Parkways"
---

# §460–1. Inclusion of Ackia Battleground National Monument and Meriwether Lewis National Monument


To facilitate the administration of two [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) of the national [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) system, known as Ackia Battleground National Monument, Mississippi, and Meriwether Lewis National Monument, Tennessee, those [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) are included in the Natchez Trace Parkway, which they adjoin; and they shall be administered as a part of the parkway. In order to provide continued recognition of the significance of these portions of the parkway, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall provide them with appropriate designations in accordance with the historical events which occurred on them.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–131, Aug. 10, 1961, 75 Stat. 335.)