§ 422. — Moores Creek National Battlefield; establishment.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC422]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
Sec. 422. Moores Creek National Battlefield; establishment
In order to preserve for historical and professional military study
one of the most memorable battles of the Revolutionary War, the
battlefield of Moores Creek, in the State of North Carolina, is declared
to be a national battlefield whenever the title to the same shall have
been acquired by the United States; that is to say, the area inclosed by
the following lines:
Those tracts or parcels of land in the county of Pender, and State
of North Carolina, more particularly described as follows:
First tract: Beginning at a stone at the run of Moores Creek, on the
east bank of same, about twenty poles (in a straight line) above the new
iron bridge, and running thence parallel to William Walker's line, south
sixty-two and one-half degrees west eleven chains to a stake; thence
south seven and one-half degrees east three and six-tenths chains to a
stone at the south edge of the old stage road; thence along the south
edge of said road south forty-six degrees east about five chains and
eighty links to a stone; thence south thirty-seven and one-fourth
degrees west fourteen chains and twelve links to a stone; thence north
sixty-two and one-half degrees west ten chains and seventy-five links to
a stone, a corner (4) of an eight-acre tract which the parties of the
first part conveyed to Governor D. L. Russell, for the purposes
aforesaid, by a deed dated January, 1898, and recorded in Pender County;
thence with the lines of said tract north thirty-nine and one-half
degrees east thirteen chains and twenty-seven links to a stake, the
third corner of the said eight-acre tract; thence north fifty-one
degrees west four chains to a stake about twenty feet from the old
entrenchment (the second corner of the eight-acre tract); thence with
the first line reversed north forty-four degrees west two chains to a
sweet gum at the run of Moores Creek (the first corner of the eight-acre
tract); thence up and with the run of said creek to the first station,
containing twenty acres.
Second tract: Beginning at a sweet gum on the eastern edge of Moores
Creek, running thence south forty-four degrees east two poles to a
stake; thence south fifty-one degrees east four poles five links to a
stake; thence south thirty-nine degrees west thirteen poles twenty-seven
links to a stake; thence north fifty-one degrees west nine poles thirty-
one links to a stake in the edge of Moores Creek; thence northerly with
the creek to the beginning, containing eight acres more or less.
Third tract: Beginning at a cypress on the edge of the run of Moores
Creek about twenty feet from the west end of the old entrenchments and
running thence in a line parallel to and ten feet distance from the
outside or east edge of the old line of entrenchments in all the various
courses of the same to a stake ten feet distant on the east side of the
north end of said entrenchments; thence a direct line to the run of said
Moores Creek; thence down said creek to the beginning, containing two
acres, be the same more or less (the intention is to include all lands
now known and designated as Moores Creek battlefield and now so
recognized as such and owned by the State of North Carolina), together
with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging.
The aforesaid tracts of land containing in the aggregate thirty
acres, more or less, and being the property of the State of North
Carolina, and the area thus inclosed shall be known as the Moores Creek
National Battlefield.
(June 2, 1926, ch. 448, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 684; Pub. L. 96-344, Sec. 12,
Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1136.)
Change of Name
In the first undesignated par., ``battlefield'' substituted for
``military park'' and in last undesignated par., ``Battlefield''
substituted for ``Military Park'' on authority of Pub. L. 96-344,
Sec. 12, Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1136, which redesignated Moores Creek
National Military Park as Moores Creek National Battlefield.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 422a of this title.
