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A LONG TRAIN RIDE FROM NEW YORK TO OPELOUSAS What do three nuns, two mayors, a Baptist preacher, and the founder of a car dealership all have in common?
May 1, 2023 · Through the years other trains brought children from New York to southwest Louisiana. Numerous Baby Trains passed through the area between 1905 ...
Between 1873 and 1929, over 2,000 “Orphan Train Riders” came to Louisiana from the New York Foundling Hospital. Because of an increase in the number of ...
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Between 1854 and 1929 more than 150000 children rode the Orphan Train out of NYC and into the midwest. Not all were orphans, many had parents who...
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On display in the museum are many artifacts donated by family members of orphan train riders. Among them are priceless photographs of those children who ...
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Jul 18, 2015 · Harold Dupré and Ryan Bernard are children of Orphan Train riders. Dupré lives in Grand Prairie, and Bernard lives in Houston. While president ...
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Jun 3, 2020 · The young children were put on orphan trains, in a mass relocation that led to our modern system of foster care. Some of those orphans, roughly ...
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Posted: Feb 1, 2021
Posted: Feb 1, 2021
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The Louisiana Orphan Train Society, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to collecting and preserving those items that tell the history of the orphan ...
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Oct 1, 2012 · About one in twenty-five Americans has an orphan train rider connection. Two organizations were responsible for more than half the orphan trains ...
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