A brown-hair Irish teenager was the first to walk on the gangplank with her two brothers in tow on to Ellis Island at 10:30 am New Years Day. She entered through the humongous doors, describes by the New York Tribune "a little more than business shed". This girls name was Annie Moore and she was the first foreigner to ever step foot on Ellis Island. It was discovered in 2006, that Annie Moore, who died in the streetcar accident was born and raised in the United States. The massive immigration station that Annie passed through was consumed in flames, though not lethal, on June 15,1897. The fire burned all registry listing book who had every immigrant who ever landed in New York


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