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Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station on January 1, 1892. Seventeen-year-old Annie Moore, from County Cork, Ireland was the first immigrant to be processed at the new federal immigration depot.
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.