Ellis and Angel Islands | Civics: Links to History

Links to History: Ellis & Angel Islands

1890

1892 Ellis Island opens as an immigration station in New York harbor.

1900

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  source: The Granger Collection

1907 In a single day, 11,747 immigrants pass through Ellis Island.

1910

1910 Angel Island opens as an immigration station in San Francisco Bay.

1920

1930

1940

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  source: Rudolph Vetter, National Archives and Records Administration / Presidential Library

1940 Angel Island ceases operation. Some 175,000 Chinese immigrants have passed through Angel Island.

1950

1954 Ellis Island ceases operation. Some 12 million immigrants have passed through Ellis Island.

1960

1970

1980

1990

1990 The restored Main Building at Ellis Island opens as a museum.

2000

2000 California voters approve a $15 million proposition to begin full restoration of Angel Island. The entire project is expected to be completed by 2010, the one-hundredth anniversary of the immigration station's opening.