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Ellis Island
Ellis Island
is an island located in
Upper New York Bay
in the
Port of New York and New Jersey
,
United States
. It was the gateway for millions of
immigrants
to the
United States
as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. The island was greatly expanded with
land reclamation
between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. The island was made part of the
Statue of Liberty National Monument
in 1965, and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990. Long considered part of
New York
, a 1998
United States Supreme Court
decision found that most of the island is in
New Jersey
. The south side of the island, home to the
Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
, is closed to the general public and the object of restoration efforts spearheaded by
Save Ellis Island
.
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