Ellis Island is known in history as a place that welcomed America's immigrants, but for a time, it also pushed them away. 1:00m watch On January 2, 1892, 15-year-old Annie Moore, from Ireland, became ...
As the country celebrates its 250th birthday, relatives of the first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island reflected on the American Dream. Annie Moore, a teenager from County Cork, Ireland, made the ...
Slowly but surely, the legend of Annie Moore — an Irish girl who was the first immigrant to arrive at Ellis Island in 1892 — is becoming less legend and more biography. Statues in Ireland and New York ...