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Oct 21, 2020 · While they operated, Orphan Trains moved approximately 200,000 children from cities like New York and Boston to the American West to be adopted.
Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 200,000 American children—some orphaned, others abandoned, all in need of families—traveled west by rail in search of new ...