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• Ancestry.com - Castle Garden: The Forgotten Gateway

  Article by Barry Moreno.

• Castle Clinton (Castle Garden) National Monument

  From the National Park Service. Located in Battery Park on the southern-most tip of Manhattan, Castle Garden was the arrival point of some eight million immigrants who entered New York harbor from 1855 to 1890. It was the Ellis Island of its day.

• Castle Garden Online Database

  Free online searchable database of over 10 million immigrants who arrived at Castle Garden at the tip of Manhattan between 1830 and 1892. Searchable by name. Before Ellis Island was opened, Castle Garden functioned as the first official immigration center in the United States as a collaboration between the State of New York and New York City. Information in the online database is taken from the original ships' manifests and provides occupation, age, sex, date of arrival, place of origin and ship name. Results of advanced searches require a fee-for-download.

  • Castle Garden Timeline

  • Example of Ship Manifest

• CASTLE-GARDEN Mailing List

  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Castle Garden, the first center in the United States for processing arriving immigrants, which was founded by New York State on an island off the southwest tip of Manhattan in 1855. Archives: browse or search.

• Immigrant's Story - Castle Garden

  From the New York Times of December 23, 1866.

• Immigration and the Commissioners of Emigration of the State of New York

  A book by Friedrich Kapp.

• One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse

  Alternate search functions for many online databases. Includes tools for immigration, census, vital records, calendars, soundex, foreign alphabets, Jewish and Holocaust research.

  • Castle Garden years (1855-1891) plus other New York Arrivals

• Resources for Finding New York Passenger Lists 1847-1897

  A guide for locating passenger records in the Castle Garden era.

• Steve Morse's One-Step Castle Garden Search Engine

  One-Step search of Castle Garden immigration records covring the years 1851 to 1891. This search requires a subscription to a pay-for-use database.

• The ShipsList - Ships Pictures, Ports and Logos

  • Castle Garden

    Engravings and photographs of Castle Garden.

  • Castle Garden 1855

    New York Daily Times article about the opening of the new immigrant depot.

  • Wards Island Immigration Station

    Engravings of the Emigrant Hospital.