Adventure 003, Site 028-Knapps Cabin

Gary and Doug D in front of Knapp's Cabin

Capture California, the Game-2013
Adventure: 003, Site 028-Knapps Cabin


National Registry ID: 78000291




Team: YOLT
Date:  August 17, 2013
Location:
Coordinates: 36° 47′ 2″ N, 118° 38′ 9″ W

Address: Cedar Grove, Kings Canyon

Description:
Date Built: 1925
Architect: George Owen Knapp

Knapp's Cabin

While our house church group was finishing up on our Zumwalt Meadow hike, we decided to stop at a sign which says: Knapp's Cabin, just a short ways after Roaring River Falls. The walk in, maybe 100 feet or so is not strenuous or anything. The cabin is not impressive (10'x20')—it was only a storage cabin. The cabin was only one of the places Knapp erected in the area, but the only one surviving. It is the oldest structure in the Cedar Grove area. We just wonder about how someone like George Knapp decided this was a place he wanted to spend his time is amazing.You see, he founded a company called Union Carbide.



First, where did he sleep? There is only a rocky little rise close to the cabin. But a short walk down gets you to the South Fork of the Kings, amongst some pine trees. I suspect he slept in there. You also wonder what kind of person was Knapp? Did he participate in the life of the Roaring Twenties? Or was this his way of escaping?



On the other hand, in the Santa Ynez mountains, in back of Santa Barbara, Knapp erected a house on his 160 acre lot. It was big enough to be called Knapp's Castle-the remains looks substantially more elegant than our cabin.



Wikipedia:
Knapp Cabin is a historic cabin located in Kings Canyon National Park west of Cedar Grove, California. The one-room cabin was built by George Owen Knapp, a Union Carbide executive, in 1925. Knapp used the cabin for storage while camping in the area; however, after Knapp stopped camping in 1928, he no longer used the cabin. The cabin saw occasional use until the creation of Kings Canyon National Park in 1940; in the 1950s, the National Park Service assumed maintenance of the cabin.[2]
Knapp Cabin was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 20, 1978.[1]






References:

• Wikipedia
  
• Trailwiki
  
• National Registry of Historic Places: Documentation and Pictures
  
• Biography of George Knapp
  
• Noehill – Only a skelton page
  

Overall Landmark References:

• National Registry of Historical Places (NRHP)
  
• NoeHill (NOE)