Peter urban and im a park ranger at for the National Park service here at ellis island. This island for Many Americans is a place where their american story began. 12 to 13 million americans came to this island and to this building in order to be given the ok to go out and start their lives in the late 1800s and early 1900s. A lot of people dont know about ellis island before that time, so let me talk to you briefly about ellis island itself. Today, we are 27 acres in size. But in the origin form this island was in, it was three acres. A small island in the middle of the the barely came above. Its first serve as a fort in 1812 and then as a storage depot. Somewhere around 1890, it was decided by the federal government that this would be the place that they would institute the first buildings specifically constructed for the processing of immigrants. And so they did construct that building between 1890 and 1892. The building you see here is not the first Processing Center, it is actuall
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