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Who discovered the Isles? Who lived there?

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Who discovered the Isles? Who lived there?

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Explorer Captain John Smith of Jamestown and Pocahontas fame was the first Europeans to map the shoals after his visit in 1614. He named them “Smith Isles” but the title did not stick. The Isles were heavily populated by fisherman in the early 1600s and perhaps earlier. Over time, a hardened fishing village evolved on the Appledore, Star and Smuttynose and the area was, for a whole, officially the town of Gosport. Thomas Laighton, Celia Thaxter’s father bought three of the islands in 1839. His hotel industry flourished there even before the Civil War and the Isles were a popular tourist site for writers like Whittier and Hawthorne, and for artists and musicians.

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