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The history of Angel Island spans centuries. 3000 years ago. Before Westerners arrived, the Miwok enjoyed thousands of peaceful years of pristine beauty on Angel Island. Native American use of the island began when people first came to live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Angel Island History Timeline Pre 1769 The island is used by...
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History. The island is alive with history… three thousand...
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- The Chinese Exclusion Era
- Angel Island: ‘Ellis Island’ of The West?
- How Things Worked at Angel Island
- Processing Center During World War II
- Angel Island Poetry
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Immigrants from China began arriving en masse in the United States in the wake of the Gold Rush. Some worked as miners; others got jobs on farms, in textile factories, or building the transcontinental railroad. At the time, the federal government did little to regulate immigration, instead leaving it up to the states. But with the growing influx of...
Under the Chinese Exclusion Act, U.S. immigration officials were required to inspect each Chinese passenger who arrived via boat in San Francisco before they could be allowed on land. As this process often took more than a single day, passengers were initially detained on steamships anchored in the harbor for that purpose. In 1892, a building near ...
From 1910-40, an estimated 500,000 immigrants from 80 countries—including Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Mexico, Canada, and Central and South America—were processed through Angel Island. The great majority came from China or other Asian countries, including Japan, Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, Korea and Vietnam. On arrival in San Francisco, a ship...
In August 1940, a fire destroyed the main administration building on Angel Island, and the processing of immigrants was moved to the mainland. Congress repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943, but continued to limit immigration from China to just 105 people per year until passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act in 1965. During World War I...
Abandoned after the war, the buildings deteriorated until the 1970s, when the discovery of more than 200 poems in Chinese etched into the walls by long-ago immigrants inspired efforts to preserve Angel Island and commemorate its role in the history of Pacific immigration. The Angel Island Immigration Station, declared a National Historic Landmark i...
Erika Lee and Judy Yung, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America(Oxford University Press, 2010) History of Angel Island Immigration Station, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation Richard Lui, “Paper Sons.” CNN, November 14, 2009.
Nov 1, 2022 · A History of Angel Island, and Where to See Its Oldest Buildings. by Jim Wood November 1, 2022. Angel Island State Park sits but a mile from mainland Marin and it’s easily reached via the Angel Island Tiburon Ferry. However, as seen from Marin, Angel Island appears lovely but lonely; not much but trees and trails.
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Angel Island Immigration Station, principal immigration facility on the U.S. West Coast from 1910 to 1940, where Asian immigrants were detained. It functioned as both an immigration and deportation facility, at which some 175,000 Chinese and about 60,000 Japanese immigrants were detained under oppressive conditions.
Angel Island, a State Park, was occupied by the U.S. military between 1850 and 1954 and was also an immigration holding station for Chinese immigrants to the United States. Numerous associated buildings still exist. The island also includes several early archeological sites.
