Boston Farm and Trade School opens.

(April) Originally the Boston Farm School, it is located on Thompson Island. The first vocational school in the U.S., it was founded by Charles Jackson, Rev. Joseph Tuckerman and others in 1832 (1833). The school merges with the Boston Asylum for Indigent Boys in 1835. After a visit, Nathaniel Hawthorne writes “The farm boys remain insulated, looking at the passing show, within sight of the city, yet having nothing to do with it.” The school is renamed the Boston Farm and Trade School in 1907 (1884). It becomes Thompson Academy in 1955, closes in 1975, and is then taken over by the Thompson Island Outward Bound program, which opens the Willauer School in 1994.