Ellis Island is a federally owned island in New York Harbor, situated within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York, that was the busiest immigrant ...
2009年10月27日 — Ellis Island, a historical site in New York City, opened in 1892 as an immigration station and processed more than 12 million immigrants ...
During the forty years it operated, Ellis Island saw more than 12 million immigrants pass through its gates, at a rate of up to 5,000 people a day. For many ...
2023年9月21日 — The museum exhibits chronicle Ellis Island's role in immigration history, and view it in the context of its time and the still broader context ...
Despite the island's reputation as an “Island of Tears” the vast majority of immigrants were treated courteously and respectfully, free to begin their new lives ...