Immigrants invested Castle Garden with deep personal meaning

Evidence

An elderly woman said that there must be many other Americans who, like her, were reminded every time they went to the old fort of how they had, years before, “felt their eyes fill with tears, and their hearts fill with thankfulness as they passed through the doorway of Castle Garden, the doorway to Liberty, a new life, a new world.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 2887

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• STORYSTEM: The fort as the threshold for millions of immigrants — its destruction by an establishment figure who called it ‘history not worth writing about’ could seed a story about whose history gets erased and whose memories count.