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Forest Home
Former settlement
Forest Home is located in California
Forest Home
Forest Home
Location in California
Country United States
State California
County Amador County
Elevation
581 ft (177 m)

Forest Home is a former settlement in Amador County, California. It was located 6.25 miles (10.1 km) 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.

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