Ellis Island

This guide to Ellis Island opens on New Year's Day 1892, when seventeen-year-old Annie Moore, having crossed the Atlantic from County Cork with her two younger brothers, becomes the first immigrant to walk through the newly opened doors of Ellis Island. You'll hear about the twelve-day steerage crossing and the harbor ceremony that greeted the barge on its final morning. The guide then widens out to the twelve million immigrants who followed, and the doctors who screened new arrivals in just six seconds at the top of the Registry Room stairs.