<P> After its opening , Ellis Island was again expanded , and additional structures were built . By the time it closed on November 12 , 1954 , 12 million immigrants had been processed by the U.S. Bureau of Immigration . It is estimated that 10.5 million immigrants departed for points across the United States from the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal , just across a narrow strait . Others would have used one of the other terminals along the North River ( Hudson River ) at that time . At first , the majority of immigrants arriving through the station were Northern and Western Europeans ( Germany , France , Switzerland , Belgium , The Netherlands , Great Britain , and the Scandinavian countries ) . Eventually , these groups of peoples slowed in the rates that they were coming in , and immigrants came in from Southern and Eastern Europe , including Jews . Many reasons these immigrants came to the United States included escaping political and economic oppression , as well as persecution , destitution , and violence . Other groups of peoples being processed through the station were Poles , Hungarians , Czechs , Serbs , Slovaks , Greeks , Syrians , Turks , and Armenians . </P>
<P> After its opening , Ellis Island was again expanded , and additional structures were built . By the time it closed on November 12 , 1954 , 12 million immigrants had been processed by the U.S. Bureau of Immigration . It is estimated that 10.5 million immigrants departed for points across the United States from the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal , just across a narrow strait . Others would have used one of the other terminals along the North River ( Hudson River ) at that time . At first , the majority of immigrants arriving through the station were Northern and Western Europeans ( Germany , France , Switzerland , Belgium , The Netherlands , Great Britain , and the Scandinavian countries ) . Eventually , these groups of peoples slowed in the rates that they were coming in , and immigrants came in from Southern and Eastern Europe , including Jews . Many reasons these immigrants came to the United States included escaping political and economic oppression , as well as persecution , destitution , and violence . Other groups of peoples being processed through the station were Poles , Hungarians , Czechs , Serbs , Slovaks , Greeks , Syrians , Turks , and Armenians . </P>
when did ellis island close as an immigration station
when did ellis island close as an immigration station
November 12 , 1954
November 12 , 1954