THE CHILDREN ON THE TRAIN

Published by News Staff on Mon, 10/26/2015 - 10:27am
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Few people today know much about the largest child migration in history and the children who found new homes here in Texas. Between 1854 and 1929, approximately 250,000 orphans and “surrendered” children from single-parent families were sent out to every state in the continental United States to find new homes.
 

 

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