From the 1850s to 1930, the Orphan Train Movement relocated between 150,000 and 200,000 children from eastern cities to ...

Ask Americans to name the great migrations that built the country and you’ll hear about Ellis Island, the Oregon Trail, the Great Migration north. Almost nobody mentions the trains full of children.

COLUMBUS, Kan. — The Orphan Train Traveling Display exhibit at the Cherokee County Genealogy and History Library is reviving a generation’s interest in the country’s early foster care and adoption ...

The Crete Public Library District reached out via social media to find descendants of orphan train riders who want to share their stories for programming related to an upcoming exhibit. Sarah Wegley, ...

Through stage productions, video and countless personal reflections most of us know something about the experiences of the Orphan Train Riders. Beginning in 1854 and continuing until 1929, as many as ...

ST. PAUL -- It was3:49 a.m. June 15, 1916, when orphan A17206 arrived at the train station in Winona, Minn. The 2-year-old girl with her name sewn in the hem of her dress was met by a couple who ...

SOUTH BEND — For decades, orphaned or abandoned children on the East Coast were placed on trains and transported to new homes to the west, including many in Indiana and Michigan. Now a local group is ...

Children from the orphan train. Although orphan trains operated in the U.S. for decades, the legacy of the trains has gone relatively unnoticed. Over the course of 75 years, hundreds of thousands of ...

New York in the 1850s was a difficult place to live. There was an influx of immigration, high rates of infectious diseases, and poor working conditions. Some estimate the number of children on the ...

Harold Williams was raised in Chicago, spoke only Polish until he started school and shared his foster parents’ home with a little, blond playmate. In a Tribune interview decades later, Williams ...

Elliot Bobo was taken from his alcoholic father's home, given a small cardboard suitcase, and put on board an "orphan train" bound for Arkansas. Bobo never saw his father again. He was one of tens of ...