Worth Davis’ Camp

Cape Camp

Worth Davis Camp

HG:  There was a camp, somewhere to the Cape they always called the Worth Davis’ camp cause I was about 3 and we went, that was our vacation. 

SG:  Was that on the banks side?

HG:  We stayed. I don’t know if it was on the Cape side, but they always called it Worth Davis’ camp.

SW: It was on the south…

HG: Shackleford?

SW:  North side of that “eye” where the Cape would turn like this. 

HG:  It was on the Cape side.

SW:  It would come to back of that house there were they had the over flow of water and stuff.  Across where the dock was at, Worth’s camp was on that hill over there.

HG: I was about three and my brother took the picture-anyway my brother, sister and parents actually standing to the breakwater. Then the rocks were like this high. Of course, you’d be lucky to find one this high and I was about three years old but they called it Worth Davis’ camp, you know.

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BENNIE BROOKS

In the late 60s or early 70s, Bennie had a simple shack on the Banks— south of the Cape Village.  It was on a high spot, but with one of the severe storms, it floated out to sea.

It was near Emma Rose Guthrie’s friend, Worth Davis— who loaned to Emma Rose and Garland his camp in spring and summer –it too was washed away in a storm.

—-After I got married, a friend of ours (Worth Davis) had a small cabin on the hill near the Baker House, and the old army dock.  He would let me and my family stay in it in the summer, he just used it in the fall and winter for fishing and hunting……later a storm came and took the little cabin out to sea.