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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 has had several names. The native Americans called it Gull Island and the Dutch/English colonist called it Oyster Island. It has been called Dyre, Bucking, and Anâ¦derson Island. Samuel Ellis bought it in 1770 . The Federal government purchased the island from New York state in 1808 and built a fort in it.