He was a middle-aged, simple-hearted miner who had lived in a lonely corner of California, among the woods and mountains, a good many years, and had studied the ways of his only neighbors, the beasts and the birds, until he believed he could accurately translate any remark which they made.
Immigration Station. In 1905, construction of the Immigration Station began in the area then known as North Garrison. Surrounded by public controversy from its inception, the station was finally put into partial operation in 1910. It was designed to process Chinese immigrants whose entry was restricted by the Chinese Exclusion Law of 1882.
Before Ellis Island opened in 1892, the state and city of New York had been welcoming and processing new arrivals since in 1820 at Castle Garden Immigration Depot in lower Manhattan. More than 100 million U.S. citizens trace their ancestry through the Castle Garden experience.