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
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

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "Granite Pass Shorty Lovelace Cabin". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. December 9, 2008.
3. 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

Media related to Shorty Lovelace Historic District at Wikimedia Commons

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