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  • orphan train program

    …first orphan train’s arrival in Dowagiac, Michigan, in 1854 to the last one’s reaching Trenton, Missouri, in 1929. An estimated total of 150,000 to 400,000 children were relocated. Many of those children were genuinely taken in by farm families and were adopted and treated as their own children; for others,…

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    …first orphan train’s arrival in Dowagiac, Michigan, in 1854 to the last one’s reaching Trenton, Missouri, in 1929. An estimated total of 150,000 to 400,000 children were relocated. Many of those children were genuinely taken in by farm families and were adopted and treated as their own children; for others,…

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