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Orphan Train Museum at the Union Pacific Railroad station, grand opening in 2007 at Concordia, Kansas. Children were placed throughout the United States and Canada. Many children rode the train to the Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, or Texas where they were "placed" with families.
Feb 13, 2024
May 22, 2023 · The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes ...
Apr 28, 2024 · From 1854 to 1929, a network of “orphan trains” relocated as many as 300,000 children from East Coast orphanages in cities like Boston and New York City to at ...
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 11, 2023 · Former Penngrove author returns with heartbreaking novel based on a painful family mystery.
Duration: 50:40
Posted: Dec 13, 2023
Posted: Dec 13, 2023
Jan 26, 2024 · Children were taken from overcrowded cities in the eastern United States andmainly deposited in the rural Midwest, including Missouri. These trains transported ...
Jan 10, 2024 · According to Shaley George, curator of the National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, Kansas, the West was considered less stable because of its boom-and-bust ...
Duration: 1:07:01
Posted: Oct 23, 2023
Posted: Oct 23, 2023
Dec 22, 2023 · Brace and other agents working with the CAS were determined to rescue street children growing up in the heart of the vice and place them into the homes of hard- ...