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16 U.S.C. § 403g — Establishment; minimum area

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This law officially creates Great Smoky Mountains National Park, covering 400,000 acres. Half the land was bought by North Carolina, Tennessee, and the United States together; the other half came from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in her honor.

An area of four hundred thousand acres, within the park's minimum boundaries, is established as a completed national park. The United States will administer, protect, and develop it. Half of this land was acquired by the people and governments of North Carolina and Tennessee, together with the United States. The other half was acquired by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, in memory of Laura Spelman Rockefeller.
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An area of four hundred thousand acres within the minimum boundaries of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, acquired one-half by the peoples and States of North Carolina and Tennessee, and the United States, and one-half by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in memory of Laura Spelman Rockefeller, is established as a completed park for administration, protection, and development by the United States.

Source credit: (June 15, 1934, ch. 538, § 1, 48 Stat. 964.)

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  • 1934Enacted · Act of June 15, 1934, ch. 538 · 48 Stat. 964

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