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Seafarers Island Holiday to Historic Thompson Island

Sponsored by Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands this annual event is the best way to start the New Year! Thompson Island has walking trails, meadows,forests and a 40 acre salt marsh.

Pack a picnic, explore on your own or take a tour with an FBHI volunteer. There will be a building open for warmup space and a book and merchandise sales table. Park policy is no pets and no alcohol.

We will travel on MV Freedom which holds 300 people and is heated. There will be a heated building open on the island. People go to enjoy walking the beaches and trails on this beautiful island.

Some history: A residential school for boys has been located on Thompson's Island since 1835 when the Boston Asylum for Indigent Boys and the Boston Farm School Society merged and moved to the Island as the Boston Asylum and Farm School for Indigent Boys, popularly called the Boston Farm School. In 1907 its name was changed to the Farm and Trades School to reflect a change in its mission. In 1955 it became Thompson's Academy, a college preparatory school for urban boys. Thompson's Academy closed in 1975.

For many years now Thompsons Island has been home to Thompson Island Outward Bound.

For more information: http://fbhi.org/thompson-island.html

For a timeline of Thompson Islands History: http://thompsonisland.org/about/history/