Forest Home | |
Settlement Type: | Former settlement |
Pushpin Map: | California |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in California |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | California |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Amador County |
Coordinates: | 38.465°N -120.9642°W |
Elevation M: | 177 |
Elevation Ft: | 581 |
Forest Home is a former settlement in Amador County, California. It was located 6.25miles west of Plymouth, at an elevation of 581 feet (177 m). It still appeared on USGS maps as of 1944.
Forest Home began as a gold mining center, north of Ione. 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.