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Article: Volunteers Work to Raise Funds for Concordia, Kan., Orphan Train Museum.
- Article from:
- The Salina Journal (Salina, KS)
- Article date:
- March 12, 2004
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Byline: Tim Unruh
Mar. 12--CONCORDIA, Kan. -- A dozen historically minded people are racing time to chronicle a chunk of U.S. history.
If enough money can be raised, the National Orphan Train Complex will open in May 2005 at the old Union Pacific Railroad Depot in Concordia.
The depot was among the stopping points for orphans relocated from New York and other eastern cities to the rural West on what became known as Orphan Trains.
The Concordia volunteers are working to commemorate the railroads and the westward movement of orphans.
But that will require a minimum of $200,000 to open the complex for business, and up to $2 ...
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... ... But now, years later, some of those orphan train riders and their descendents are starting ... the Illinois executive director of the Orphan Train Heritage Society, a group dedicated ... group will host a re-enactment of the orphan train adoptions at the Kishwaukee Valley Heritage ...
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