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Ellis Island National Monument
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The double-ended steam ferryboat Ellis Island was built in 1904 and designed to address the needs of the United States Immigration Service at Ellis Island. For 50 years, from May 1904 until November 1954, Ellis Island carried more than 12,000,000 immigrants on the final leg of their journey to a new home in America. In August 1968, after sitting at the dock for 14 years, Ellis Island sank in its present position at the head of the Ellis Island ferry slip. |
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| Dredging operations scheduled for summer 2002 prompted park officials to request that the Submerged Resources Center conduct a pre-dredge inspection of the ferry slip. As part of that project, SRC archeologists also completed a remote sensing survey of both Ellis Island and Liberty Islands, documented the sunken ferry and examined the seawall surrounding Ellis Island in advance of restoration work.
- March-August 2002 Underwater archeological assessment and documentation of Ellis Island, including the ferry, the ferry slip, and Liberty Island by SRC. David Conlin, Project Director.
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Reference:
- Conlin, David L. and Arthur K. Ireland, 2003 Statue of Liberty National Monument: Ellis Island Seawall Condition Assessment. Submerged Resources Center Technical Report No. 7. National Park Service, Santa Fe, NM.
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