Yeomet, California

Yeomet (also, Saratoga and Forks of the Cosumnes) is a former settlement and mining town in Amador County, California.

[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.

[1][3] The settlement prospered with gold miners for a number of years before it faded.