Castle Garden

building, New York City, New York, United States

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In New York City: Ethnic and religious diversity
…the pressure of immigration that Castle Garden, near the Battery, was converted into a reception centre, a role it fulfilled from 1855 to 1890. By the time of the American Civil War, Irish, Germans, and several other ethnic groups made the city’s population more than half foreign-born.
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