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Forest Home is a former settlement in Amador County, California. [1] It was located 6.25 miles (10.1 km) west of Plymouth, [2] at an elevation of 581 feet (177 m). [1] It still appeared on USGS maps as of 1944. [1] Forest Home began as a gold mining center, north of Ione. [3] Both placer and hydraulic mining was conducted. [3]
The Forest Home Farms is a 16-acre (6.5-hectare) municipal historic park located in San Ramon, California. In 1997, Ruth Quayle Boone bequeathed the land and all buildings on it to the City of San Ramon for use as a park and historical site in memory of her husband, Travis Moore Boone .
There were 2,686 housing units at an average density of 453.0 per square mile (174.9/km 2), of which 1,390 (74.9%) were owner-occupied, and 467 (25.1%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.8%; the rental vacancy rate was 10.6%. 3,346 people (73.9% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 1,179 people ...
Outside the central camp area, which is the site of the old-growth grove, but within the 2,712 acres (1,098 ha) owned by the Bohemian Club, logging activities have been underway since 1984. Approximately 11,000,000 board feet (26,000 m 3) of lumber equivalents were removed from the surrounding redwood and Douglas fir forest from 1984 to 2007. [46]
Drala Mountain Center (DMC) is a 501c3 educational non-profit originally founded in 2000 as the Shambhala Mountain Center, with the name changing to DMC in 2022. [1] It operates a spiritual retreat center located on 600 acres in a valley in the northern Colorado Rocky Mountains . [ 2 ]
The name is a corruption of Tasajera, a Spanish-American word derived from an indigenous Esselen word, which means "place where meat is hung to dry". [4] [5]The 126-acre mountain property surrounding the Tassajara Hot Springs was purchased by the San Francisco Zen Center in 1967 for the below-market price [6] of $300,000 [5] from Robert and Anna Beck. [7]
Forest Home is located at (42.453158, -76.471473 [ 4 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2 ), of which, 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2 ) of it is land and 3.70% is water.
Forest Home, Alabama (the United States) Show map of the United States Coordinates: 31°51′44″N 86°50′33″W / 31.86222°N 86.84250°W / 31.86222; -86