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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.
Ellis Island: The Island. Before becoming the famous Ellis Island, it was a small piece of land, composed of two islands, perfect for the Lenni Lenape Indians to use to find sea food. In the 1600s, the Dutch purchased the land. Over the years, several people owned the deed to those islands.