New York Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Immigration History
New York Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Immigration History Where New York Began: The Immigration Center’s Striking Historical Exhibits Nearly half of Americans today can trace their ancestry back to the immigrant families that pushed though the port of New York in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Those migrants were coming from somewhere, bringing the world in tow, most hailing from Europe in numbers that would overwhelm modern immigration systems. It may not look like it now, but New York City’s Lower East Side neighbourhood on the lively island of Manhattan was once replete with such families coming to start…