Architect Shorty Lovelace Area 1 ha Added to NRHP 31 January 1978 | NRHP Reference # 78000293 Year built 1910 | |
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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. 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.
Structures include:
References
Shorty Lovelace Historic District Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA