Oh, dude, back in the day, it took like 7-10 days to sail from Italy to Ellis Island. Can you imagine being stuck on a boat for that long? I'd be seasick for sure. Thank goodness we have planes now, am I right?
All passengers who came to America from 1855 to 1890 had to go through Ellis Island. Passengers were inspected for contagious disease.
Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station on January 1, 1892.http://www.nps.gov/elis/faqs.htmIn November 1954, Ellis Island closed its doors.http://www.nowpublic.com/world/ellis-island-why-did-it-close
In the 1700s, immigrants were coming from all over the world. The second and third waves of Irish immigrants came after 1717. The potato famine in Ireland was making them want to come. Many immigrants thought that they would strike it rich in this new land. Ellis Island and Angel Island dealt with immigrants. Immigrants were inspected, but it was rare for one not to be accepted. If an immigrant was sick, they were sent to the Ellis Island hospital at Ellis Island. It was rare for one of the immigrants to get sent home. Angel Island was used mainly by Asians and Ellis Island by Europeans. Ellis Island was closed in 1954. It was expensive to maintain. Today, Ellis Island is a tourist sight. From Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty can be seen. The Statue of Liberty was a significant sight for the immigrants crossing over to the U.S. Many of them cried on the boats. The boats treated the immigrants as cargo, and the immigrants were usually steerage. Depending on where the immigrants were traveling from, the journeys were long. Many people got sick and conditions were terrible.
It was the Island of Hope for many because it was the entryway to the United States, where people hoped to escape from grinding poverty and tyranny and make a better life for themselves. However, about 2% of the people who had made the long and uncomfortable voyage to the U.S. were rejected at Ellis island because of a chronic contagious disease, insanity, criminal offenses, blindness, and other reasons. For them, it was the Island of Tears.
The original Ellis Island facility built in 1892 was made almost entirely of Georgia Pine. Although the rosin was removed from the 400 ft. long floor, this oily flammable sap remained in the walls. The building was a tinderbox and burned in less than two hours in the early morning hours of June 15th 1897.
HOW long as you want because when u need to go to Ellis island you could take any boat that takes you to Ellis island.
A standard passenger ship should take a week or two in order to reach Italy.
it took 1663 cold, hard months. good luck!
Ellis Island has no aviation facilities.
Not long 20-30 minutes. The line to board is longer and to get back on the same. It is a nice ride either way.
most people say it took up to 3 to 5 weeks. [from Europe to Ellis Island]
about a month
2-3 weeks
All passengers who came to America from 1855 to 1890 had to go through Ellis Island. Passengers were inspected for contagious disease.
about a month
22 hours
Immigrants had to go to Ellis Island because they had to take a test, check if their sick, and get the papers this usually took a really long time.