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Posted on Aug 21, 2025 / Travel

• Ellis Island opened as an immigration station on January 1, 1892.
• The very first immigrant processed was a 15-year-old girl from Ireland named Annie Moore.
• Nearly 40% of Americans today can trace at least one ancestor through Ellis Island.
• At its peak, Ellis Island processed more than 11,000 immigrants in a single day.
• The main building of Ellis Island is now a museum with over 1,000 oral histories from immigrants.
• Ellis Island is partly in New York and partly in New Jersey due to a long-standing state boundary dispute.
• The Ellis Island Wall of Honor lists over 700,000 immigrant names submitted by their descendants.

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