It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources, acting through the Division of Parks, to preserve, improve, protect and maintain all parks, parkways, monuments and historic sites now owned or hereafter acquired or established by the State of Alabama except Mound State Monument, the first White House of the Confederacy and all monuments and historic sites now located on state-owned land in the City of Montgomery.
Ala. Code § 9-2-10 (1975)