Hundreds of thousands of children were abandoned following the influx of immigrants to America beginning in the 1830s. The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center opened a new temporary exhibit last week telling the story of these children being loaded onto trains during the Industrial Revolution and shipped to Oklahoma and other parts of the West.
All Aboard: Examining the Orphan Trains tells the good and the bad of the controversial attempts to relocate orphan children from overpopulated cities on the east coast to foster homes in the rural American west, including Oklahoma.
This special exhibit will run through June 4 and is open during regular museum hours of 10 am-5 pm Tuesday-Saturday. Admission is the regular museum price.
The Orphan Trains
