---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 217a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "217a"
heading: "Change in name of Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/217a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXIII — Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park"
---

# §217a. Change in name of Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park


The Abraham Lincoln National [Historical Park](/usc/16/410eee–1.md?p=1) at Hodgenville, Kentucky, shall on and after September 8, 1959, be known as Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site, and any law, regulation, document, or record of the United States in which such [historical park](/usc/16/410eee–1.md?p=1) is designated or referred to under the name of Abraham Lincoln National Historic [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) shall be held to refer to such [historical park](/usc/16/410eee–1.md?p=1) under and by the name of Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–231, Sept. 8, 1959, 73 Stat. 466.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site was renamed Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park by Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, § 7114(a), Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1202.