Shorty Lovelace Historic District | |
Nearest city | Pinehurst, California |
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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: