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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§218 Addition of land

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XXIII— - ABRAHAM LINCOLN BIRTHPLACE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 218

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

About six acres of land are added to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park in Kentucky. One piece was transferred to the United States by J. R. Howell and Mattie Johnson Howell and by W. L. Ferrill and Minnie Ferrill on June 15, 1945, and that deed was recorded June 25, 1946 in Deed Book 58, page 262, Larue County, Kentucky. The other piece was transferred to the United States by Carl J. Howell and Dorothy N. Howell and was recorded April 18, 1947 in Deed Book 59, page 435, Larue County, Kentucky.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §218

Conservation — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The approximately six acres of land described in the following recorded deeds to the United States are added to and made a part of the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park in the State of Kentucky:
(a)Deed of conveyance to the United States, dated June 15, 1945, made and entered into by and between J. R. Howell and Mattie Johnson Howell, his wife, and W. L. Ferrill and Minnie Ferrill, his wife, of Hodgenville, Larue County, Kentucky, recorded on June 25, 1946, in deed book numbered 58, page 262, in the records of the county of Larue, Kentucky; and
(b)Quitclaim deed to the United States, made and entered into by and between Carl J. Howell and Dorothy N. Howell, his wife, of Hodgenville, Larue County, Kentucky, recorded on April 18, 1947, in deed book numbered 59, page 435, in the records of the county of Larue, Kentucky.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park” substituted for “Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site” in introductory provisions pursuant to Pub. L. 111–11. “Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site” substituted for “Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park” in introductory provisions pursuant to Pub. L. 86–231.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

16 U.S.C. § 218

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73