Ellis Island

Between 1892 and 1924, approximately 12 million of men, women, and children first set foot on U.S. soil at Ellis Island - federal immigration facility. In all, by the time Ellis Island closed for good in 1954, it had processed the ancestors of more than 40% of Americans living today. The island's main building, now a national monument, reopened in 1990 as the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

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