Great Fires and Orphan Trains of the 1800s

Podcast: The Sunday afternoon podcast with Greg Reese · Hosted by Greg Reese of the Reese Report

Opublikowano: 2026-10-05

During the late 1800s, hundreds of thousands of orphan children were trafficked in America on trains and sold at fairs. Some of these children were taken from their parents, some were taken off the street, and some were born into Masonic communities, birthed within a vast network of privately run orphan asylums and foundling hospitals which were managed by a branch of Freemasonry known as the Odd Fellows. The Odd Fellows is a masonic fraternity dating back at least three hundred years. Their charge is to “visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate th...