The orphan houses off Route 1

Virginia · USA · Road

Off Route 1 in Woodbridge, Virginia stood several houses belonging to families who took in orphaned children as a way of life. This was how a great many children were raised before the modern care system, informally, in ordinary houses, by people who made it their occupation.

The families were evicted when companies moved in to build over the land, and the houses came down.

Then nothing happened. The construction that had justified the clearance was shelved, and the ground was left. Years later, when the land had begun to recover, contractors returned to build on it after all.

The sightings reported locally began once that construction started.

The account is thin, and no names, dates or records have survived with it. What is recorded here is really the shape of it: families who spent their lives raising other people's children were put off their land for a development that did not happen, and the story attached itself to the ground afterwards.

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Hvor ligger The orphan houses off Route 1?

The orphan houses off Route 1 ligger i Virginia, USA.

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