Star Island Has Attracted Many Famous People

Editor's Note: Fourth in a five-part series

The list of names of famous historic figures from America's storied past who have graced the shores of Star Island is so extensive it is very possible that they are not all included here.

But thanks to the Star Island Corporation officials, we have compiled a list of several of the famous American writers, poets, leaders, pirates and others. Since Capt. John Smith first discovered Star Island the Isles of Shoals in the early 1600's, famous people have flocked there ever since.

Famous people from the time of Celia Thaxter:

James Russell Lowell

James T. Fields

Annie Adams

JG Whittier

William Morris Hunt

Ellen Robbins

Childe Hassam

Ross Turner

J. Appleton Brown

Olaf Brauner

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nathanial Hawthorne

John Knowles Paine

William Mason

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Julius Eichberg

Edwin Thomas Booth

John B. Woodworth

Louis Wagner

Edward Everett Hale

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Henry Ingersol Boditch

Ole Bull

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sarah Orne Jewett

Lowell Mason

Richard Henry Dana

Famous people from pre-Celia Thaxter parlor days:

George Washington is said to have been rowed around the Isles of Shoals

Gov. John Winthrop

John Smith

President Franklin Pierce

Famous Pirates:

Blackbeard (legend says so, but there is no record of such)

Capt. Edward Low

Capt. Kidd

Dixie Bull

John Quelch

Rachel Wall

Recent Famous Visitors/Staff:

Anita Shreve

Christina Tossi (baker in NYC who worked in Star Island’s bakery for two summers)

Dave Lamb (worked on island for several years and started the band Brown Bird)

Hally McGehean (worked on staff and is now a fashion designer)

Submitted by Kyle Belmont, assistant director of Star Island

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