New York - the gateway to the United States
New York is a popular place, receiving 50 million tourists every year. Travel around the world people to visit the unofficial capital of North America, which emits light in the cosmopolitan lifestyle and a culture as diverse as its rich social and political history.
If the class cuisine, attractions and iconic counter-culture hip, tourists flock to New York each year. Two million of them go to one of the most famous of New York to find the door- Iceland Ellis.
Ellis, Iceland, on the Hudson River, operates as a country of immigration station from 1892 to 1954. His early immigrants was Annie Moore - 15 years Cork - who first walked through its doors on January 1 was Peterssen Arne, a Norwegian sailor, 1954.
It is now one of the federal government, Ellis Island was the first private by Samuel Ellis in 1770, at the beginning. Before becoming a federal immigration station, which oftenknown, Ellis Island had a number of titles and offers a range of different purposes. Previously Iceland Oyster hatcheries for the rich and Kioshk by Indian tribes, which means "Iceland Gull, Iceland and Anderson calls Dyre. The island was a colonial outpost, the power of war and an ammunition dump, and 1892 was transferred to a receiving station for the country implemented the immigrant population.
The immigrants who were generally treated by Castle Garden ImmigrationDepartment, which operated from 1855-1890, in Manhattan, was converted from Ellis, who had a connection even bigger.
Ellis has been created primarily through the completion of artificial, nine-tenths of the island is modern. As the island has increased in recent years, from 3.3 acres to 27.5 acres, there was a void in their jurisdiction. For more than 83 percent of the island is part of the District of New Jersey City, and the rest of the city of New Yorknumber of legal disputes directly below to identify the property. Despite a decree in 1834, said that both countries share the property of 'island, said that a 1998 resolution of the Supreme Court of New Jersey established the liability of all parts of the island after the conclusion of the 1834th TODAY 'Today, New Jersey and New York, ownership of the island, according to a statement that was passed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 to U.S. National Park Service, which is fine with the newYork, Puerto other famous monuments like the Statue of Liberty National Monument.
The immigration station itself was created by Edward Lippincott Tilton and William boring Alciphron obtained both in recognition of her design created at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900. Over the years, its flagship Grand Hall, immigrants narrow room instead of 12 million men, women and children. During the golden age of immigration to North America in 1907, nearly 1.5 million immigrants wereEllis Island.
In the hope of millions of two per cent were refused immigration status, his refusal to Ellis won his nickname, The Tears Iceland. This decrease is mainly carried out within the limits of health, both for obvious reasons of illness or insanity, or if you have a criminal record instead. Among those who have been successful, but died in 3000 at Ellis Hospital, police Iceland.
immigration procedures have allowed health professionals to determine what was appropriate to enter the UKStates and a medical examination of 20 seconds was considered sufficient for consultations aimed at improving human health, both for reasons of the heart, a hernia or conjunctivitis, held on the jacket or coat send them to isolation, detention or release. However, the process took only fifty four and eight hours, without much of America in a relatively short time compared to that of his arduous journey from the corners of the globe into force.
Immigrants fromAsia, Europe and Russia, a mixture of beliefs, religions and cultures forever. As a result, nearly half of all Americans, his family to a relative who has come through the Port Authority of New York at Ellis landing in Iceland. Famous names that have crossed the Great Hall are the lyric tenor Enrico Caruso, the actor Bob Hope, Frank Capra, director, actress Claudette Colbert, Max Factor cosmetics and physicist Albert Einstein.
While millions of immigrants have been sent to the United StatesEllis each year millions of tourists who now prefer to fly to New York and other visitors to Ellis Island each year.
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