Shorty Lovelace Historic District


Shorty Lovelace Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Cabin at Woods Creek, 1967
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Nearest city	Pinehurst, California
Coordinates	36°44′26″N 118°31′3″W / 36.74056°N 118.51750°W / 36.74056; -118.51750
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

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^ "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.
^ William Tweed (1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Shorty Lovelace Historic District" (pdf). National Park Service. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

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Media related to Shorty Lovelace Historic District at Wikimedia Commons

Photographs of Shorty Lovelace's cabins at the National Park Service's NRHP database

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