In the 1800s, it was believed that corners harbored disease. Thus, all the hallways of the Ellis Island hospital are rounded.

The first Greeks who arrived in the New World had to go through Ellis Island, which became the designated immigration station ...

Courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Collections. Before the European colonists came to America, Algonquin-speaking Native American tribes used Ellis Island as a home base to harvest food.

A Jewish immigrant landed at Ellis Island in New York ... posed for one young Jewish family in New York, American culture turned to the Old World – the European countries from which white ...

Ellis Island straddles New York and New Jersey and commemorates the immigrant experience. Millions of American stories began at Ellis Island; by some estimates, 40% of people in the country today have ...

But to truly appreciate its size and significance, you’ll want to visit the statue and Ellis Island while on your NYC vacation. If you’re departing from the New York side, you’ll hop on a ...

New York’s Ellis Island was, from 1892 to 1954 ... to a mother being ripped from her family and shipped back to the Old World. Immigrants were turned back often enough, for a variety of reasons ...

Some tour operators include additional New York City attractions in their Statue of Liberty tours. Round-trip ferry service to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty is typically included in tour ...

"It was very special to bring my children, each born in New York, to the very place where ... who can trace at least one ancestor to Ellis Island. Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty stand ...