Platte County Historical Society's April program meeting will be 2 p.m. Sunday, April 6, in the west building meeting room. Anna Castner Wightman will present the program about the Orphan Train ...

The Orphan Trains at 1 and 6:30 p.m. Jan. 21 will offer a screening of the titular PBS American Experience video about minister Charles Loring Brace’s Children’s Aid Society and other ...

In the 19th century, the Orphan Train Movement started out as a humanitarian endeavor to pluck children out of the slums of East Coast cities and send them to good homes in the Midwest. There, they ...

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 ...

The Depot Museum will be hosting an informative event at 6 p.m., June 18, filled with live music, videos and storytelling surrounding the Riders on the Orphan Train. Musician and author of Riders on ...

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 ...

Learn more about a fascinating time in Louisiana history on Jan. 27 when Martha Aubert, president of the Louisiana Orphan Train Museum in Opelousas, and James Douget, a museum board ...

“I was interested in the Orphan Train. I knew there were people in Tekamah that were connected, too,” said Gabby Mahon. The interim director of Lied Tekamah Public Library got that right ...

The Orphan Train movement was the largest mass migration of children in United States history. Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 150,000-250,000 children were relocated from the overcrowded ...

Exhibit examines how orphans used trains to migrate from the eastern U.S. to the west. Available with regular museum admission. For more information, call (580) 237-1907.

The Riders on the Orphan Train presentation will be held at the City by the Sea Museum, 401 Commerce St., in Palacios at 2 p.m. Jan. 15. The event is free and open to the public for general ...