Step back in time to March 15, 1906, when the Orphan Train pulled into the Eastern Iowa town of Hopkinton. Townsfolk paused in their daily routines, drawn to the unusual gathering prompted by the newspaper’s notice—children seeking new homes. This was just one day of the Orphan Train Movement, and it aimed to offer these children with no relatives and no homes a chance at family life in rural areas where they might thrive.
The emotional story of children sent westward to find a new family told in new documentary
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