In this episode of Bless Your Heart, Heather and Carlyle dig into one of the most chilling and overlooked chapters in U.S. history — the Orphan Train Movement. Between 1854 and 1929, more than 250,000 children were sent across America by rail to “new homes.” But was it really philanthropy… or something darker? They trace eerie parallels between the orphan trains, the rise of industrial rail empires like the Vanderbilts, the explosion of asylums, and the mysterious timing of the World’s Fairs....
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In this episode of Bless Your Heart, Heather and Carlyle dig into one of the most chilling and overlooked chapters in U.S. history — the Orphan Train Movement. Between 1854 and 1929, more than 250,000 children were sent across America by rail to “new homes.” But was it really philanthropy… or something darker? They trace eerie parallels between the orphan trains, the rise of industrial rail empires like the Vanderbilts, the explosion of asylums, and the mysterious timing of the World’s Fairs....
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Bless Your Heart 222
In this episode of Bless Your Heart, Heather and Carlyle dig into one of the most chilling and overlooked chapters in U.S. history — the Orphan Train Movement. Between 1854 and 1929, more than 250,000 children were sent across America by rail to “new homes.” But was it really philanthropy… or something darker? They trace eerie parallels between the orphan trains, the rise of industrial rail empires like the Vanderbilts, the explosion of asylums, and the mysterious timing of the World’s Fairs....
