Forest Home is a former settlement in
Amador County, California
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It was located west of
Plymouth
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at an elevation of 581 feet (177 m).
It still appeared on
USGS
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maps as of 1944.
Forest Home began as a gold mining center, north of
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Both placer and hydraulic mining was conducted.
After the gold petered out, copper mining began.
A post office operated at Forest Home from 1862 to 1905, moving once in 1886.
References
Former settlements in Amador County, California
Former populated places in California
1862 establishments in California
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