ST. PAUL -- It was3:49 a.m. June 15, 1916, when orphan A17206 arrived at the train station in Winona, Minn. The 2-year-old girl with her name sewn in the hem of her dress was met by a couple who ...

The Crete Public Library District reached out via social media to find descendants of orphan train riders who want to share their stories for programming related to an upcoming exhibit. Sarah Wegley, ...

Humanities Nebraska is funding a four-city tour of the program “Riders on the Orphan Train” in July. The program will come to the Chadron Library July 22 at 3 p.m. Several thousand children came to ...

The forgotten stories of more than 250,000 orphan train riders will be told with original music, archival photographs and historical recitations this week. The Nacogdoches Historical Sites Department ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — One thing is certain in Music City; we live among talented people who helped create some of the world's most famous recordings. One producer and engineer has set out to tell ...

While the Orphan Trains were a historically significant event in the nation’s past, the whole saga of the transportation of these children across the country has generally been ignored or forgotten.

ST. LANDRY PARISH — Walking into the Louisiana Orphan Train Museum, you’re immediately surrounded by a wealth of history — stories that date back to the 1850s and continue to echo through time. “This ...

Between 1854 and 1929, orphan trains from Eastern cities delivered about 400,000 children to families in rural areas of the Midwest. Missouri received 100,000 children. The “baby trains” were the ...

Christina Baker Kline's new novel, Orphan Train, is partially set in 1929, mere months before the stock market crash that would trigger the Great Depression. A young Irish girl, Niamh (pronounced ...

KEARNEY — Anne Foradori spent five years tracking down and contacting sources to bring “Orphan Train: The Musical” to the University of Nebraska at Kearney. When she finally landed the production, ...