Dec 20, 2023 · This 'placing out, ' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan trains' that carried the children. Holt carefully analyzes the ...

Dec 20, 2023 · This "placing out," an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the "orphan trains" that carried the children. Freelance writer Holt ...

Apr 22, 2024 · This broadside was posted in a town where an “orphan train” had arrived in the late 1800s. It is part of the Children's Aid Society archives housed at the ...

Duration: 50:40
Posted: Dec 13, 2023

Duration: 59:38
Posted: Feb 23, 2024

Aug 11, 2023 · According what Park Tracey discovered, the thought process was that, “The best thing was to put their children on trains and send them west. This would benefit ...

Dec 20, 2023 · A Quilt and a Diary: The Story of an Orphan Who Rode an Orphan Train North to a New Home, by Ann Zemke. In Ramsey County History, vol. 39, no. 1 (spring ...

Duration: 43:17
Posted: Jan 30, 2024

Jun 13, 2023 · The first orphan train was sent out by the Children's Aid Society in 1854. Forty-six children ages seven to fifteen were sent to Dowagiac, Michigan, and all ...

Aug 19, 2023 · The children were sent in groups of twenty-five to 100 on trains, making stops along the way where they might be chosen by some family who wanted a child or ...