250,000 Children With No Parents — The Orphan Trains Nobody Can Explain (1854-1929)
The number hit me before the story did. 250,000. A quarter of a million children. No parents, no last names, no birth certificates, no records of where they came from or who they belong to. Loaded onto trains between 1854 and 1929 and shipped across America like freight, distributed to strangers in 47 states. And…
