This may interest someone at GFO... ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 12:26 PM Subject: [PULLMAN-COMPANY] Albion, NY former home of George Pullman Hello, everyone! I am the President of the Orleans County Genealogical Society and we have some great plans to honor George Pullman, former resident of our county seat, Albion, NY. Our society presented a reenactment of an orphan train ride this past April, onboard moving trains here in our county. We had four original riders onboard with us- and two of those were women who had gotten off the train here in this county back in the 1920's. Prior to our event our historians had no evidence that riders came into our county and since we have discovered other local stories, as well. An unexpected result of our reenactment (after several months of detailed planning) was that Mary Ellen Johnson, founder of the OTHSA (Orphan Train Heritage Society of America) designated our group the repository of things orphan train rider in New York State. We are honored and take our new responsibility seriously. So seriously, that we are working on renovation of a railroad freight house to become a permanent exhibit (museum) to preserve the story of the greatest migration of children- and their use of Pullman cars- created by an Albionite, George Pullman. If you would like to share information you have with us we are open to suggestions and information on every aspect of the orphan trains and about George and his cars! Naturally, we are interested in collecting some PULLMAN items, too! Thank you- we were delighted to discover your list ;) Holly Canham President OrleansCountyGenealogicalSociety.org ==== PULLMAN-COMPANY Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and type the word UNSUBSCRIBE on the subject line. (For digest mode, substitute the letter "D" instead of "L".) ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237