---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 698o"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "698o"
heading: "Protection of significant historic assets"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/698o"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection"
---

# §698o. Protection of significant historic assets


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), with the consent of the [owners](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) thereof, may [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) by donation or purchase with donated funds the following properties or sites of significant historic interest in Duval County, Florida:

- (1) Spanish sixteenth century forts San Gabriel and San Estaban.
- (2) Spanish eighteenth century fort Dos Hermanas.
- (3) English eighteenth century forts at Saint Johns Bluff and Fort George Island.
- (4) Spanish sixteenth and seventeenth century mission San Juan del Puerto.
- (5) Site of the American Revolutionary War battle of Thomas Creek.
- (6) The Zephaniah Kingsley plantation, with its eighteenth and nineteenth century buildings.
- (7) The Spanish American War fortification on Saint Johns Bluff.
- (8) The confederate fort known as the Yellow Bluff Fort [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) Historic Site.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–249, title II, § 202, Feb. 16, 1988, 102 Stat. 14.)