Yeomet, California

Yeomet (also, Saratoga and Forks of the Cosumnes) is a former settlement and mining town in Amador County, California. It was at the confluence of Middle and North Forks of the Cosumnes River, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Enterprise.^[1] The name, reportedly Native American in origin meaning "rocky falls", reflects the rapids upstream from the place.^[1] Other accounts place the namesake waterfalls downstream and claim yomet to mean "sounding rock" for the echoing effects there.^[2]

It was first settled by Edwin Beebee, John D. Morrison, and E. M. Simpson in 1850, and the three established and ran a trading post until 1859. There was a hotel and ferry to cross the Cosumnes, both operated by E. P. Bowman.^[2] A post office operated at Yeomet from 1854 to 1861.^[1]^[3] The settlement prospered with gold miners for a number of years before it faded.^[3]^[4]

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^ ^a ^b ^c Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 483. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
^ ^a ^b Sioli, Paolo (1883). Historical souvenir of El Dorado County, California : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men & pioneers. Georgetown, Calif.: Cedar Ridge Pub. p. 198. ISBN 9780965876322.
^ ^a ^b Gudde, Erwin Gustav (1975). California gold camps : a geographical and historical dictionary of camps, towns, and localities where gold was found and mined, wayside stations and trading centers. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 379. ISBN 9780520261440.
^ Allen, William Wallace; Avery, Richard Benjamin (1893). California Gold Book: First Nugget, Its Discovery and Discoverers, and Some of the Results Proceeding Therefrom. Donohue & Henneberry, printers. p. 172.

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