Castle GardenThis article provides information on the establishment of Castle Garden, an immigrant receiving station in New York to control and protect immigrants to the state.DeAngelis, GinaCobblestone
By the early 1850s Castle Garden was joined to the mainland by landfill, which created Battery Park. To serve new immigrants, the State of New York turned Castle Garden into an immigrant station—processing eight million from 1855 to 1890. One in six Americans today is descended from a ...