Shorty Lovelace Historic District
Shorty Lovelace Historic District | |
Cabin at Woods Creek, 1967 | |
| Nearest city | Pinehurst, California |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 36°44′26″N 118°31′3″W / 36.74056°N 118.51750°W |
| Built | 1910 |
| Architect | Shorty Lovelace |
| NRHP reference No. | 78000293 |
| Added to NRHP | January 31, 1978[1] |
The Shorty Lovelace Historic District includes a series of cabins built in Kings Canyon National Park by trapper Joseph Walter "Shorty" Lovelace between 1910 and 1940. Lovelace was the first non-Native American to live year-round in the upper Kings River Canyon.[2] Lovelace may have built as many as thirty-six structures in the area, with possibly a dozen surviving. Lovelace built his first cabins in 1912 at Crowley Canyon. The cabins were typically five feet by seven feet with dirt floors.[3]
Structures include:
- Williams (Quartz) Meadow Cabin
- Sphinx Creek Cabin
- Crowley Canyon Cabin
- Granite Pass Cabin
- Vidette Meadow Cabin
- Gardiner Creek Cabin
- Woods Creek Cabin
- Cloud Canyon Cabin
- Lower Bubbs Creek
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "Granite Pass Shorty Lovelace Cabin". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. December 9, 2008. Archived from the original on May 21, 2011.
- ^ William Tweed (1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Shorty Lovelace Historic District" (pdf). National Park Service.
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External links
Media related to Shorty Lovelace Historic District at Wikimedia Commons
- Photographs of Shorty Lovelace's cabins at the National Park Service's NRHP database