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Riders on the Orphan Train – Minden

Name: Riders on the Orphan Train – Minden
Start: 2023-09-11T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-09-11T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Jensen Memorial Library

September 11, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm CDT

Old photo of dozens of children in their best clothes arranged near the back of a passenger rail car.

“Riders on the Orphan Train” is a Multi Media Presentation of live music and storytelling about the Orphan Trains. Between 1854 and 1929, over 250,000 orphaned, half orphaned and surrendered children were put on trains in New York City and sent to every state in the Continental US to find homes.