Sunday

This Day in History (November 12 1954) Ellis Island Closed

 


On November 12, 1954, Ellis Island, the gateway to America, shuts it doors after processing more than 12 million immigrants since opening in 1892. Today, tens of millions of Americans (and we Swedish-American cousins) can trace their roots through Ellis Island, located in New York Harbor off the New Jersey coast and named for mercha...read more from the History channel


An interesting read, part of our American history,



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