Beginning in the 1850s, "orphan trains" are services that connect adopted children with their biological parents.

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Orphan trains were actually services that transported orphaned and abandoned children from crowded cities in the East to families in the Midwest and West who were looking to adopt or take in these children as indentured laborers. These trains operated from the late 1800s to the early 1900s.

Beginning in the 1850s, "Orphan Trains" Are Services That Connect