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.
