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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.
New York Times, October 16, 1908 (p. 12) [1910] Bids for supplying food in the immigration station on Ellis Island were opened yesterday by Commissioner William Williams. There were thirteen bidders, and the figure quoted for the board of aliens ranged from 20 to 35 cents a day.