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Castle Clinton, also referred to as Castle Garden, is a fort and national monument locatedin Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City. The structure hasserved as a fort, theater, opera house, national immigrant receiving station, and aquariumthroughout its long history. Today, Castle Garden is called Castle Clinton NationalMonument and serves as the ticket center for ferries to Ellis Island and the Statue ofLiberty.
History of Castle Garden:
Castle Clinton began its interesting life as a fort built to defend New York Harbor fromthe British during the War of 1812. Twelve years after the war it was ceded to New YorkCity by the U.S. Army. The former fort reopened in 1824 as Castle Garden, a public
cultural center and theatre. In 1855, Castle Garden became America's first immigrantreceiving center, welcoming more than 8 million immigrants before it was closed onApril 18, 1890. Castle Garden was succeeded by Ellis Island in 1892.
In 1896 Castle Garden became the site of the New York City Aquarium, a capacity inwhich it served until 1946 when plans for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel called for itsdemolition. The public outcry at the loss of the popular and historic building saved itfrom destruction, but the aquarium was closed and Castle Garden stood vacant until itwas reopened by the National Park Service in 1975.
Castle Garden Immigration Station:
From August 1, 1855 through April 18, 1890, immigrants arriving in the state of NewYork came through Castle Garden. America's first official immigrant examining andprocessing center, Castle Garden welcomed approximately 8 million immigrants - mostfrom Germany, Ireland, England, Scotland, Sweden, Italy, Russia and Denmark.
Castle Garden welcomed its last immigrant on April 18, 1890. After the closing of CastleGarden, immigrants were processed at an old barge office in Manhattan until the openingof the Ellis Island Immigration Center on 1 January 1892. More than one in six native-born Americans are descendants of the eight million immigrants who entered the UnitedStates through Castle Garden.
Researching Castle Garden Immigrants:
The free CastleGarden.org database, provided online by the New York BatteryConservancy, allows you to search by name and time period for immigrants who arrivedin Castle Garden between 1830 and 1890. Digital copies of the many of the shipmanifests can be accessed through a paid subscription to Ancestry.com's New York
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Passenger Lists, 1851-1891. Microfilms of the manifests can also be obtained throughyour local Family History Center or National Archives (NARA) branches.
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