Castle Garden - Scene of millions of immigrants arriving to the soil of the great Republic.

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $15.95

Stock #:980459
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Manhattan
State: New York (NY)
County: New York
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
On August 3, 1855, Castle Garden opened as an immigrant landing depot. The creation of Castle Garden, the official immigrant processing center in the nation, represented a country at a crossroads, signaling a change in American immigration policy, and in the ways through which immigrants became Americans. Part of the Ezra Meeker historical postcards collection.

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