John Smith’s map and widely read book “A Description of New England” portrayed the region’s teeming fishing banks, abundant game, clean rivers, vast forests, and native people, helping spur a wave of English migration to these shores. The map guided the Pilgrims to “Plimouth” in 1620 and led John Winthrop to the “River Charles” and the founding of Boston in 1630. In 1614, Captain John Smith, a founder of the Jamestown settlement seven years earlier, returned to America and explored and marked the coastline from Penobscot Bay to Cape Cod. He was the first European voyager from England to map the Isles of Shoals, which he named “Smith’s Isles.” Though that name did not last, Smith, with the consent of King James I, named the region “New England.” Six miles from this point lie the Isles of Shoals, possibly named for the bountiful “schools” of fish surrounding them. The nine islands were home to a prosperous fishing community for more than 150 years. On Star Island, two other obelisks were erected on anniversaries of the 1614 voyage. In 1864 a monument was built to honor Captain John Smith, and in 1914 a 46.5 foot monument was dedicated to Reverend John Tucke.