General facts about Ellis Island

• The federal immigration station in Ellis Island opened on January 1, 1892.
• Fifteen year old Annie Moore, from Ireland, was the first person admitted to the immigration station on Ellis Island
• The last person to pass through Ellis Island was Arne Peterssen of Norway in 1954.
• Ellis Island's doctors became proficient enough to conduct the health exam in 6 seconds.
• Between 1900-1914 some 5,000 to 10,000 people passed through the station daily.
• The all-time daily high in Ellis Island occurred on April 17, 1907, when 11,747 immigrants arrived.
• The peak year for immigration at Ellis Island was 1907, with 1,004,756 immigrants processed. 
• Over the sixty-two years of it's operation over 12,000,000 immigrants were processed at Ellis Island including Max Factor, Bela Lugosi, Rudolph Valentino, Irving Berlin, Sigmund Freud, Charles Chaplin and Bob Hope.
• After 1924 Ellis Island became primarily a detention and deportation processing center.
• It is estimated nearly one third of current U.S. citizens can trace an ancestor to Ellis Island.