There is hereby created the Historic Blakeley Authority:

(1) To establish, develop, operate, promote, protect, preserve, and maintain as a state historic park the lands in Baldwin County, Alabama listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Blakeley site along with reconstructed buildings and all other present and future improvements within said sites, including, but not limited to:

a. The specific sites of Old Town Blakeley, Civil War battlegrounds, breastworks, batteries and encampments;

b. Early American military encampments;

c. Sites of Indian villages and encampments;

d. Period French plantations;

e. Early American residences, farms, homes, businesses and commercial sites and buildings;

f. Civilian and military roads and turnpikes; and

g. Significant natural plant and animal life and its habitat and specifically threatened or endangered plant and animal species;

(2) To protect and preserve bays, bayous, streams, marshlands, swamps and shorelines of rivers, bays and streams within the national register site, including bottomlands of all rivers and streams within or along the Blakeley site;

(3) To preserve and protect archaeological sites;

(4) To establish, develop, promote and maintain educational and cultural programs and facilities consistent with the role and influence of Blakeley in Alabama history;

(5) To develop, build, manage, operate, promote and maintain any and all types of public and private facilities consistent with the reconstruction of historic Old Town Blakeley and the development of an historic and recreational park and cultural center.