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Restrictive gateway to land of the free
The immigration station at Ellis Island opened on Jan. 1, 1892, with appropriate fanfare and a $10 gold piece for the first immigrant to step ashore there, Annie Moore, a 15-year-old from County Cork. (Full article: 599 words)
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