Revisiting the Orphan Train: An American Odyssey

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Dec 27, 202344:43Society & Culture

Between 1854 and 1929, 250,000 orphans and abandoned children were placed on East Coast city trains and sent west to live with new families. A desperate solution to a desperate problem, some of the stories turned out wel...

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