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Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station on January 1, 1892. Seventeen-year-old Annie Moore, from County Cork, Ireland was the first immigrant to be processed at the new federal immigration depot.
They hurried, and then waited-sometimes for hours-aboard barges. The first passenger to pass through the doors of Ellis Island in 1892 was given a ten-dollar gold piece. She was Annie Moore from County Cork. The busiest year was 1907 with 866,660 immigrants.