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 * Ellis Island** was the gateway for millions of [|immigrants] to the [|United States] as the site of the nation's busiest immigrant inspection //station// from 1892 to 1954. The island was greatly expanded with [|landfill] between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a [|naval magazine]. It became part of the [|Statue of Liberty National Monument] in 1965, and since 1990, hosts a museum of immigration run by the [|National Park Service]. A 1998 [|United States Supreme Court] decision found most of the island to be part of [|New Jersey].