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JUNE 25, 2012
Since 1991, orphan train riders and their descendants have gathered each July to share stories of their unique heritage. The Louisiana Orphan Train Museum (shown above) opened in Opelousas in October 2010 and the annual gathering now takes place at the museum. This year’s gather will be held at the museum on Saturday, July 14 from 1-5 p.m.
Thousands of orphans came to La. via trains after the Civil War
By Chris Rieger and John Michael Lockhart The story of the Orphan Train Movement, an ambitious and eventually controversial effort to rescue poor and homeless children, began a few years before the start of the Civil War at a time when an estimated 30,000 children roamed the streets of New' York in search of money, food and shelter. Conditions in big cities were unsanitary and the homeless children were too often victims of disease
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