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In 1800's, Over 30,000 Children Were Homeless. Aid Arrived from Children’s Aid Society, New York Foundling Hospital, and Others. Orphan Train Records ...

Louisiana's Orphan Train Museum in Opelousas Louisiana tells the story of the Orphan Trains and the stories of some of the children who rode them.

Thousands of orphaned and abandoned children once rode west from NYC to find new families

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Since many families did not want to take more than one child, some brothers and sisters riding on the Orphan Trains during the late 1800s and early 1900s had to be separated. When this happened, the organizations placing the children tried to keep siblings in the same area. This segment from the West by Orphan Train documentary includes archival photographs, historical re-enactments, a first-person account from Orphan Train rider Stanley Cornell, and an interview with Amanda Wahlmeier…

Wide-eyed, ghostly images staring through foggy train windows. This is what my mother Mildred saw in 1920; she was 8 years old at the time.

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What were the Orphan Trains and what did they do for children? It's an intriguing story. It's considered the precursor to modern foster care in America.

"Orphan Train" poster from Forgetting Tabitha by Julie Dewey, the Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported orphaned and homeless 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, relocating about 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children.

From the mid 1850s to 1929 between 150,000 to 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children made their way west from the U.S. East Coast to be adopted into new homes and families in the Midwest, West and Canada. Because they moved primarily via trains they were commonly known as orphan train children. Kansas played a role in this movement as a final destination for many children and continues to remember them, their families of origin, adoptive families and their life changing experiences with a…

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Thousands of orphaned and abandoned children once rode west from NYC to find new families

Posted by MYETX Riders On The Orphan Train NACOGDOCHES- The Riders on the Orphan Train program will arrive at the Nacogdoches Railroad Depot on Thursday, June 27th. Novelist and Humanities Scholar, Alison Moore, and singer/songwriter, Phil Lancaster, will bring the story of the orphan train riders to life. This program is a 1½ hour multi-media

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National Orphan Train Complex 300 Washington St. PO. Box 322 Concordia, KS 66901 Phone: 785-243-4471 Email: orphantraindepot@gmail.com

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