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Geography Question - Random Category#4a?

Geography Question - Random Category#4a?

Here is the next in a new series of Geography questions... with a different category each day.

Monday - Bodies of Water
Tuesday - Buildings and Structures
Wednesday - Mountains
Thursday - Where Did It Happen?
Friday - Bridges
Saturday & Sunday - Random category

Today's category is Random category.

Your challenge is to identify the name of this place. Bonus if you can identify the state and its specific location.

Here are some clues...
* It was opened in 1892 and closed in 1942
* 17 million immigrants went through it to enter the United States
* The first person to enter it was 16yo Annie Moore from Ireland
* It is now a National Historic Site
* It's actually located in two states

Put your answer in an opinion below.

The correct answer will be given in a few days (Tuesday).

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The correct answer is Ellis Island.

Its "location" is an interesting story. When it was first built, New York State claimed it since immigrants arriving on ship were arriving in New York. But the island itself is physically on the New Jersey side of the NY-NJ border. NY and NJ fought over who owned it for years. Meanwhile, the island was manually enlarged.
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Finally, the courts got involved, and ruled that the original part of the island are in NY, while the enlarged part of the island is in NJ. Which, means that the NY Ellis Island is actually an enclave inside the NJ Ellis Island.
Geography Question - Random Category#4a?
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