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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
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 ...
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 ...