Concordia? A dozen historically minded people are racing time to chronicle a chunk of U.S. history. If enough money can be raised, the National Orphan Train Complex will open in May 2005 at the old ...

With the launch of Hutchinson’s inaugural One Book, One Community project this month featuring “The Orphan Train: The Novel,” by Christina Baker Kline, it seems fitting to write about Hutchinson’s ...

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, ...

Henry Smith died in 1958 not knowing who he was or where he came from. The man with a name not his own eventually made a life for himself and his family in Kaukauna, establishing roots where there ...

Through stage productions, video and countless personal reflections most of us know something about the experiences of the Orphan Train Riders. Beginning in 1854 and continuing until 1929, as many as ...

It was 3:49 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 signed a receipt ...

Some orphan train stories are classic American successes; others are as lonely as an orphan on a train. Such stories were shared last Saturday at the annual meeting of Louisiana Orphan Train Riders at ...

LITTLE ROCK — Before the child-welfare system began, one solution to the growing number of orphaned children in New York City was to place them on trains and send them to live with families in the ...

“Orphan Train,” Christina Baker Kline’s bestselling novel, is boarding the big screen. Broad Green Pictures is developing a movie based on the book with Michael London and Janice Williams of ...

Step back in time to March 15, 1906, when the Orphan Train pulled into the Eastern Iowa town of Hopkinton. Townsfolk paused in their daily routines, drawn to the unusual gathering prompted by the ...

Between 1854 and 1929, more than 250,000 abandoned or poverty-stricken New York children were relocated to Midwestern families to relieve the overpopulation in the city’s streets. In “The Orphan Train ...