Gilded Age · event 13 of 14

1 January 1892

Ellis Island opens. The federal immigration station replaces state-run Castle Garden at the Battery. Over the next sixty-two years around twelve million people pass through it. The peak year is 1907, with more than a million.

The Gilded Age era

  1. 30 April 1789
  2. 1799
  3. 1811
  4. 26 October 1825
  5. 16 December 1835
  6. 14 October 1842
  7. 1845
  8. 1857
  9. 13 July 1863
  10. 24 May 1883
  11. 28 October 1886
  12. 12 March 1888
  13. 1 January 1892
  14. 1 January 1898

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