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First "orphan train" heads West.

1854

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Over 200,000 children, predominantly the children of European immigrants, will be transported by train from the East Coast to Western homesteads and farms to be raised with "good families" between 1854 and the early 1930s. This is done in the name of public health, social services, and "child protection."