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Ellis Island

sandy island in mouth of Hudson River, said to have been called "Gull Island" by local Indians and "Oyster Island" by the Dutch, renamed "Gull Island" after the British took over, then "Gibbet Island" because pirates were hanged there. Sold to Samuel Ellis in 1785, who made it a picnic spot and gave it his name. Sold by his heirs in 1808 to New York State and acquired that year by the U.S. War Department for coastal defenses. Vacant after the American Civil War until the government opened an immigration station there in 1892 to replace Castle Island.

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Ellis Island

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million 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 state, a 1998 United States Supreme Court decision found that most of the island is in New Jersey. The south side of the island, home to the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, is closed to the general public and the object of restoration efforts spearheaded by Save Ellis Island.

Ellis Island (Queensland)

Ellis Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park West of Cape Melville, Queensland and East of Coen in the Claremont Isles between the first and the second three-mile opening of the Barrier Reef.

Ellis Island (miniseries)

Ellis Island is a television miniseries, filmed in the United Kingdom, broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart, adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title. The series tells the story of several immigrants from the late 19th century until the early 1910s, trying to achieve the American Dream and arriving on Ellis Island, hoping for a better life. Ellis Island highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War I, and many of the characters are based on real persons, such as Irving Berlin.

Ellis Island (novel)

Ellis Island is a 1983 historical novel by Fred Mustard Stewart.

A year after its publication a miniseries was filmed in the United Kingdom, based on this book.

Ellis Island (disambiguation)

Ellis Island is a former immigrant processing station in New York Harbor.

Ellis Island may also refer to:

  • Ellis Island (Queensland), part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Australia
  • Ellis Island (novel), 1983 historical novel by Fred Mustard Stewart
  • Ellis Island (miniseries), 1984 British miniseries
  • Ellis Island (1936 film), a 1936 American crime film
  • Ellis Island: The Dream of America, a 2002 work for actors and orchestra by American composer Peter Boyer
Ellis Island (1936 film)

Ellis Island is a 1936 American crime film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Donald Cook, Peggy Shannon and Jack La Rue.

Usage examples of "ellis island".

Not wanting to hear any more than she had to, Anna fled down the bricked corridor into the hypnotic mix of death-in-life that was the ruins of Ellis Island.

My Rox is a convenient refuge, but if Ellis Island sank into New York Bay tomorrow, they'd find another place.

Pitt let Mary handle the controls while he went back and talked with the children, pointing out the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island as they circled them at a thousand feet.

I write: I've Been Feeding Ellis Island Female Hormones For The Past Eight Months.

She always thought that when she'came to the States she'd land first on Ellis Island.