---
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"
date: "2026-07-12"
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/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) 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/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) 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/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) 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.