When Orphan Trains Went West

Southern Arizona Transportation Museum 414 N. Toole Ave., Tucson, AZ, United States

Few people today know much about the largest child migration in history. Between 1854 and 1929 over 250,000 orphans and unwanted children were taken out of New York City and given away at train stations across America. Children were sent to every state in the continental United States; the last train went to Sulphur Springs, Texas in […]

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