ALL ABOARD!

Welcome to our web-site! Here you will learn about the “Orphan Train”. The Orphan Train was very important to families who wanted a child in the late 1800s to early 1900s. There were a lot of families immigrating into the United States during this time. There were more than 100,000 children under the age 18 that rode the Orphan Train. Only 1/3 of those children were adopted. Today we don’t need orphan trains because we have agencies, such as “The Children’s Aid Society” and “Sisters for Charity”, dedicated to providing children with a safe place to live.

We will have our tour guide, Jess, show you around our website.Look for her at the bottom of each page. Please read about her on the "Jess Page".

To find out more about the perils of being an orphan in the early twentieth century

hop aboard our Orphan Train!


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