Orphan Train
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orphan-train-186-14518890
title:
Orphan Train
text:
The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported 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 from about 200,000 children. The co-founders of the Orphan Train movement claimed that these children were orphaned, abandoned, abused, or homeless, but this was not always true. They were mostly the children of new immigrants and the childre
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
U.S. welfare program
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Train
date created:
2007-09-17T03:57:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T03:48:05Z
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image:
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13
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