Ellis Island
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Ellis Island is an island that is located in Upper New York Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey, United States. It was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. The island was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. The island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990. Long considered part of New York, a 1998 United States Supreme Court decision found that most of the island is in New Jersey.
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See also
- Immigration to the United States
- Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
- Angel Island, California
- United States Immigration Station, Angel Island
- Deer Island, Massachusetts
- Geography of New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary
- Port of New York and New Jersey
- Hoffman Island
- Sullivan's Island, South Carolina
- Swinburne Island
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Hudson County, New Jersey
- National Register of Historic Places listings in New York County, New York
- Philadelphia Lazaretto
- Pier 21
- Save Ellis Island
- German Emigration Center
- Castle Clinton
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