Kissing Post

Kissing Post

The Kissing Post (also spelled kissing post) is a famous wooden column at Ellis Island near which millions of US immigrants were joyously greeted by their relatives and friends, typically with tears, hugs and kisses.

Ellis Island's Registry Room was the great hall in which the final stages of the immigration process were completed. Once getting through the Registry Room, immigrants bound for Manhattan would pass the Kissing Post, where relatives and friends would be waiting for them.

ee also

* Ellis Island

External links

* [http://www.ellisislandimmigrants.org/ellis_island_archives.htm Description of Kissing Post's location]
* [http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=50231&mini_id=1459 Article and picture of Kissing Post plaque]


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