Seeds in the Wind
The Orphan Trains and the Long Map of Lost Names of Children
Imagine being eight years old...
A cardboard tag is pinned to your coat.
You're placed on a train heading west. You don't know where you're going.
You don't know who will meet you.
Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, more than 200,000 children were sent across America on what became known as the Orphan Trains. Some found loving homes. Others became little more than unpaid laborers.
This is one of America's forgotten stories—one that deserves to be remembered.
Read this week's Relics of Time and discover the long journey of the children who became Seeds in the Wind.
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