Ann’s grandmother, Marjorie (Lind) Peterson arrived in Minnesota via the Orphan Train. Marjorie’s story made me wonder if there was a Carver County Orphan Train rider. The story begins…..

The Orphan Trains follows the story of the New York Children's Aid Society, created in 1853 to provide thousands of street children with homes in rural communities in the American midwest.

The first "orphan train," initiated by the Children's Mission ... Within 18 months, over 400,000 American women will start taking the oral contraceptive to prevent unwanted pregnancies ...

They are, essentially, stories of the American Dream ... orphanages that proliferated in the 19th century to the “orphan trains” that shipped children from Eastern urban centers to the ...