Thompson’s Station and Suffolk Station were both established in June of 1842 by the railway company when service was extended east from Deer Park. About 10 years later the colony of Modern Times was built between these two railway stations. The railway company did not build a building for the depot instead they located the Thompson Station railway depot in a large existing farm house owned by Francis M.A. Wicks. The depot was named after the Thompson family of Long Island who were the owners of Sagtikos Manor in West Islip where George Washington was a guest of Judge Thompson in 1790.

Francis Moses Asbury Wicks was an aristocrat, land baron, politician and churchman in the central part of Long Island at the time that the Long Island Railroad established Thompson Station as a railway depot. Francis Wicks used his home at Thompson Station as his headquarters.

In addition to being used as the railway depot Wicks farmhouse had a general store and a post office in the building. The post office was the first United States Post Office to be established in this vicinity and Francis M.A. Wicks was the first postmaster.

Francis Wicks farmhouse was in use for nearly one hundred years however the railway company moved the railway depot from Thompson Station to Brentwood in 1869 and in 1870 the United Stated post office was also moved from Wicks farmhouse to Brentwood. A. Bennett. History Room Newsletter . September 2007