 Told you we were going to ask. We're going to throw one in here real quick. Is it true that many immigrants had their names changed at Ellis Island to make them sound more American? Is that true? No. No, actually, that's not. Uh-oh. I'll tell you where the story comes from. Before Ellis Island was a station, way back in the 1800s, there was another immigrant station, our country's first immigrant station, called Castle Gardens.