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Abraham Lincoln is most well-known for being the United States' 16th President and Commander-in-Chief during the Civil War, ending slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation, and for being assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at the Ford Theater in Washington, D.C. Read more about this GLORecord of the week in our ArcGIS StoryMaps.
The GLO web site provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than 12 million Federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present.
The site also hosts images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records, and is the most visited website in the Department of the Interior. Visit glorecords.blm.gov for more information.