Ellis Island
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has a long history, was needed, and was the "Gateway to America" from 1892 until it closed in 1954, when it began its slow decay.
The island was called Gull Island by the Indians and Oyster Island by the Dutch. Later the English erected a gibbet or gallows on the island for hanging criminals and ....
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.... too small for the large number of immigrants arriving in the country, they chose as the new immigration center. After erecting new wooden buildings, it opened in 1892 but those buildings burned in 1897. New buildings were erected in 1900 and it reopened. Eventually the control of immigration was turned over to the Federal government.
was the principal federal immigration station the “Gateway to America” in the United States from 1892 to 1954. More than 12 million immigrants were p ....
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