Riders on the Orphan Train
Performance
In this ninety-minute presentation, historian Alison Moore and musician Phil Lancaster chronicle the history of the orphan train program, which operated in the U.S. from 1854 to 1929. For more information, please contact the Mason County M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library at 325.347.5446.
July 20, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Map
Boys traveling to Texas in 1904 on an orphan train. Photo courtesy of The Children's Aid Society of New York.