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Smith Memorial or Captain John Smith Monument

Purpose:

Honor Captain John Smith, named New England

 

Location: (Street, Park, GPS)

Star Island, Isles of Shoals

N 42°58.510’ W070°36.764’

 

Date Installed:

1864 (per seacoastonline), rehabed in 1914

 

Date or Era Referenced:

1614 (European discovery)

 

Description:

 

Wording:

Captain John Smith 1570-1631 After proving his valor in Europe & America became (Govenor?) of Virginai and Admiral of New Enlgand. While exploring this coast in the spring of 1614 made the first recorded visit to these islands named by him Smith's Isles. This tablet is placed three hundred years later by the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of NH 1914

 

Affiliations:

Society of Colonial Wars, State of NH

 

Summary:

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