Opinion: Efforts to save the hospital campus on Ellis Island are imperative to understanding the largest mass migration in ...

On January 1, 1892, Ellis Island immigration station in New York Harbor opened its doors and welcomed its first immigrant, Annie Moore, 17, who had traveled from Queenstown, County Cork.

Between 1892 and 1954, most immigrants arriving ... Following extensive restoration, the Ellis Island Immigration Museum opened in 1990. (How Ellis Island shepherded millions of immigrants into ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On January 1, 1892, Ellis Island in New York City officially opened. It became one location where millions of immigrants arriving to the United ...

The island’s basic history is known to every American student: Ellis Island opened in 1892 and closed its doors in 1954. More than 12 million immigrants arriving in New York were taken to Ellis ...

Courtesy of Jersey City Past and Present. The first immigration station at Ellis Island opened in 1892. In that first year, the new immigration station processed over 400,000 immigrants.

Annie Moore was the first immigrant who walked through the doors when Ellis Island opened more than 130 years ... On January 1, 1892, reporters from New York newspapers looked on as Moore walked ...

Cork teen Annie Moore was the first person to go through Ellis Island when it opened in 1892. Over the next 62 years, some 3.5 million Irish immigrants would be processed at the facitliy.

Once you arrive at Ellis Island, you’ll head into the National Museum of Immigration which now occupies the former immigration station that opened on January 1, 1892. The very first immigrant ...