Fort John, California

Fort John is a former settlement and mining location in Amador County, California, briefly populated in the 1850s.

It was located on the South Fork of Dry Creek, 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Volcano.

An 1857 story said that Fort John "retains more of the signs and characteristics of old Forty-Nine times than any other place in this section of California.

You behold the log-cabin, with canvass roof; the clapboard palace with mud chimney emitting the savory perfumes of burnt slapjacks and beans straight, not forgetting the bountiful supply of oro that lines the pockets of the 'honest miners.'

Everyone is proficient in the mysteries of poker and old sledge ..."[3] By 1881, a county history book reported only one resident there, who "seems to have staid to point out the site of the former town, and relate to occasional visitors the glories of the ancient days.