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The orphan train movement was started by Charles Loring Brace and his organization, the Children's Aid Society. Brace recognized the inadequacy of New York's ...
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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.
Nov 13, 2020 · From 1854 to 1929, hundreds of thousands of abandoned and orphaned children were sent from east coast cities to the American countryside in a “ ...
Mar 3, 2016 · The orphan trains operated between 1853 and 1929, relocating about 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children. Three charitable ...
The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes ...
Jan 28, 2019 · Orphan trains were the brainchild of Charles Loring Brace, a minister who was troubled by the large number of homeless and impoverished children ...
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called “orphan trains” transported more than 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children – many of them first-generation Irish ...

Orphan Train

The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. The orphan trains operated between 1854 and 1929,... Wikipedia
An ambitious and controversial social experiment that is now recognized as the beginning of the foster care system in the United States, the Orphan Train ...
The orphan train movement was the largest mass migration of children in United States history. Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 150,000-250,000 children ...
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Between 1854 and 1929, so-called “orphan trains” transported more than 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children – many of them first-generation Irish ...