The hidden truth behind America’s orphan trains - Thousands of children sent away
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The Orphan Train Museum | The Heart of Louisiana
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The Orphan Train Between the 1850s and 1920s, more than 200,000 children were put on trains and sent west — alone. Some found loving homes. Others were treated like labor. Most were never asked what they wanted. This is the forgotten story of the Orphan Train — when America tried to solve poverty by separating families and scattering children across the country. #Orphantrain Do you think this was rescue… or displacement? Tell me what you think. | Americanimmigrantstories
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The Orphan Train Between the 1850s and 1920s, more than 200,000 children were put on trains and sent west — alone. Some found loving homes. Others were treated like labor. Most were never asked what they wanted. This is the forgotten story of the Orphan Train — when America tried to solve poverty by separating families and scattering children across the country. #Orphantrain Do you think this was rescue… or displacement? Tell me what you think. | Americanimmigrantstories
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The Orphan Train Movement, spanning the 1850s to the early 1920s, was a large-scale effort to address the crisis of orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children in New York City. Over 200,000 children were sent by train to rural areas across the Midwest, with the hope they would find better lives. Organized primarily by the Children’s Aid Society and the New York Foundling Hospital, the program aimed to rescue children from poverty, overcrowded urban slums, and dire living conditions. While the mo
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