Welcome to New York City Immigrant Heritage Trail

Submitted by russ on Thu, 2007-07-19 20:51. home

About the Immigrant Heritage Trail

We invite you to use the New York City Immigrant Heritage Trail to explore the history of immigration to America, plan a trip to New York, or develop a lesson for a class. This site illuminates the stories of both America's immigrants and migrants. More

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African Heritage Tour

Submitted by russ on Mon, 2007-07-23 17:50. featured_tour

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Featured walking tour: African Heritage Tour

This walking tour of Lower Manhattan brings to life the history of Africans and African Americans in New York City during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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The Immigrant Heritage Trail project is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Trust for Historic Preservation, American Express, and the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum's mission is to promote tolerance and historical perspective through the presentation and interpretation of the variety of immigrant and migrant experiences on Manhattan's Lower East Side, a gateway to America. Visit Site

Featured Resources

Ellis Island

Ellis Island
This famous gateway, through which more than 12 million immigrants passed between 1892 and 1954, is now open to the public as an immigration museum and research facility.
Henry Street Settlement

Henry Street Settlement
The Henry Street Settlement is a social service and arts programming organization that was founded in 1893 by social work pioneer Lillian Wald. Today it serves more than 100,000 New Yorkers each year.
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery

St. Mark's in the Bowery
In this churchyard lies the grave of Peter Stuyvesant, the first governor of New Amsterdam.