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🟡 LIMITED RESEARCH VOLUME
OWNERS
J. Morton and Bernice Davis
Earl and Margaret Davis, Jr, Delmas Lewis, Dick? Rowland, Ola B. Reavis, Raleigh . Hayes, Raymond E. White, Claude S. Frye, H. L. Speas, Robert A. Cook James W. Bell,
1945
pre-WWII–Earl Davis
!970s–for remainder
OTHER ASSOCIATIONS
Associations
LOCATION
Southern Core Banks–Horsepen Creek
Story
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Title
Earl Davis was established there earliest. In the late 60s or 70s, he allowed others to establish camps on his property . Earl earlier had rental fishing cottages and ran a ferry to those camps.
Morton Davis built his camp in 1945. Delmas Lewis had property there apparently the same general time. Morton had been visiting the Banks frequently since childhood–often going by sailboat.
Locations and ownership pattern from a NPS map in the 70s. With the Park acquisition, these structures were burned –except Morton Davis, Delmas Lewis and Earl Davis who obtained negotiated lifetime estates.
After the Park acquisitions, Earl had died and Margaret was living in California. “Squatters” were using the Earl Davis’ camp–and with Margaret’s permission, Morton burned the structure. The Margaret Davis lifetime rights were later sold to James Davis (Morton’s son) who moved the SEAGIRT camp structure to this tract after his father’s death (and those lifetime rights terminated).
The building alongside the marsh and docks was the Delmas Lewis camp.
Morton Davis camp–“SEAGIRT”–the cupola led to it being nicknamed “Chapel by the Sea” by locals
Gallery
Park Service and Davis photos most likely from the mid 1970s
Credits
- NPS files and archives
- Jim Davis–Beaufort and Morehead City
- Jackie Boothe–Beaufort
- Other references within text