Shorty Lovelace Historic District

Shorty Lovelace Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. 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°WCoordinates: 36°44′26″N 118°31′3″W / 36.74056°N 118.51750°W
Built	1910
Architect	Shorty Lovelace
NRHP Reference #	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 possible 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 Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. "Granite Pass Shorty Lovelace Cabin". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. 2008-12-09.
3. William Tweed (1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Shorty Lovelace Historic District" (pdf). National Park Service.

External links

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