Danny Rose’s Lump

Danny Rose’s Camp/ Lump

“The Great March Island, well, it’s like this now, that name has changed—this is, we call it Danny’s Island….Rose’s Island.  He had aa little camp built right on here, hack a net spread and everything on there.”.  “Yeah, he had his little boat and had his net spread right there, right next to the camp.  The camp was no bigger than this room.  it was real little….I would say 12 by 14 feet.  It wasn’t big.  You have bunks in one end of it and a little table or something to sit down to.”  (James Allen Rose Interview—CALO project—Connie Mason)

Samuel “Leeby” Willis remembers the house just to the west of the drain, on a small sandy lump and felt that he may well have lived