ASHLEY KATH-BILSKY
Timeless Mystery, Suspense & Romance
This Day In History
- Ellis Island closes November 12, 2009On this day in 1954, Ellis Island, the gateway to America, shuts it doors after processing more than 12 million immigrants since opening in 1892. Today, an estimated 40 percent of all Americans can trace their roots through Ellis Island, located in New York Harbor off the New Jersey coast and named for merchant Samuel Ellis, who owned the land in the 1770s. […]
