E of Pinehurst on Kings Canyon National Park, Pinehurst, California. County/parish: Fresno.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 31, 1978. NRIS 78000293.
3 contributing buildings. 6 contributing sites.
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 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.
Structures include:
National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858697