Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§407m–3 Acquisition of site of Graff House

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER LI— - INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 407m–3

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior can add the Graff House site, where Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, to Independence National Historical Park by buying the land, taking it as a donation, or using donated money. The parcel is at the southwest corner of Market and South Seventh Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is bounded: south 124 feet, west 50 feet, north 124 feet, east 50 feet back to the start.

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Title 16, §407m–3

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In order to include in Independence National Historical Park the site of the Graff House where Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire by purchase, donation, or with donated funds all or any interests in the land and improvements thereon located at the southwest corner of Market and South Seventh Streets, in the city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point located at the intersection of the southerly line of Market Street with the westerly line of South Seventh Street, thence southerly along the west side of South Seventh Street 124 feet, thence westerly 50 feet, thence northerly 124 feet, thence easterly 50 feet to the point of beginning.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was not enacted as a part of act June 28, 1948, ch. 687, 62 Stat. 1061, as amended, which comprises this subchapter.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 407m–3

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73