After a brief stay at the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital in Iowa City, 5-year-old Nolan Toomsen organized a successful farm toy drive for the hospital.
The orphan train movement transported roughly 200,000 orphaned, abandoned and impoverished children from crowded East Coast cities to rural communities in the Midwest from 1854 to 1929. Learn more about an Iowa family with ties to this movement.
