Orphan Trains

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Between 1854 and 1929, about 250,000 children in the U.S. were taken to new families by train. Except ... they weren't called "orphan trains" at the time, the children weren't all orphans, and "family" didn't always factor into it. Read the show notes her

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HowStuffWorks.com.
0:35.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:44.7	I'm Tracy B. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.
0:47.7	Today we are drawing straight from the listener request again.
0:51.7	This is another one that has been requested many, many, many times.
0:55.7	It is orphan trains.
0:57.7	If you have never heard of orphan trains before, this probably sounds to you like
1:02.5	trains full of orphans being taken to new homes.
1:06.7	Which is kind of correct between 1854 and 1929.
1:11.7	About 250,000 children were taken to new families by train except they weren't really
1:18.7	called orphan trains at all at the time.
1:21.7	A lot of the children were not actually orphans and a lot of times these families who were taking them in were more like employers.
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