October 14, 2026
Tag: Ellis Island
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Castle Garden, the Gateway to Ellis Island
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America’s welcome mat at Ellis Island in New York was for refugees — from hunger, political unrest, or poverty. While before 1890 the states controlled immigration, in 1890 the federal government took control through the Departments of Commerce, Labor, and (in 1940) Justice. Ellis Island wasn’t the only federal immigration center, but it was the…
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April 14, 2021 12 Comments
The murder of Laura Foster was in all the papers. Did you miss it? You may have, the murder occurred in 1866. Shortly after a Confederate soldier returned home following his release from a Union Army prison, his girlfriend’s body was found in a shallow grave and Tom Dula was accused.