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About the Historic Plymouth, California Area 

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Known as the "gateway to the Shenandoah Valley"--Amador County’s wine district--the lovely small town of Plymouth is home to many wonderful wineries. Plymouth is situated in the heart of the Sierra Nevada Gold Country, where there are many historic towns and interesting places to visit as well as many recreational opportunities such as fishing, boating, hiking, and more. Amador County, one of the most beautiful recreation areas in all of California, boasts many beautiful forests, rivers, and lakes. A wonderful place to live! 

Residents of the Sierra Nevada foothills enjoy not only a high quality of living but a low cost of living--good reasons the area is one of the fastest-growing in California. Through the 1990s, Plymouth's population has grown by about 21%, and it is estimated that its population has been growing at the rate of 2.2 percent a year. Today, Plymouth’s population is 980. 


Location 

The city of Plymouth is located on the northern edge of Amador County in California on historic Highway 49 near the El Dorado County line, about 35.8 miles from Sacramento and 43.6 miles from Stockton. Amador County in beautiful Northern California is nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The Sierra Nevada (Spanish for "Snowy Range") is a mountain range in the eastern portion of California.  

Gold Country (also known as Mother Lode Country), famed for its mineral deposits and gold mines, lies along California State Highway 49, stretching from Mariposa County in the south to Sierra County in the north. It includes parts of Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Mariposa, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sierra and Tuolumne Counties. Mother lode is a term associated with the mining of gold and silver. The area contains hundreds of mines, and was one of the most productive gold-producing districts in the United States during the famous gold-rush era.  

Brief History  

The California Gold Rush began when particles of gold were first discovered by foreman James W. Marshall while building a lumber mill for Sacramento pioneer John Sutter along the American River. As rumors spread, waves of fortune seekers, to the tune of about 300,000 people, fled to California from all over the world.  

Called "forty-niners", seekers from everywhere traveled across the United States to California by ship and by covered wagon, often with great hardship. And unfortunately, though billions of dollars worth of gold was discovered, only a few became wealthy.  

In the process, San Francisco, which had been a tiny settlement before the gold rush, soared from a population of about 1,000 residents in 1848 to 25,000 by 1850!  

Plymouth was settled by Green Aden and others in search of gold, and the town grew because of the good mines there. Plymouth was established in 1871 and took a sudden jump in population when the mines were purchased by Hayward Mills and company in 1873.  

Amador County (Spanish for “one who loves”) was created in 1854. The county is named after Jose Maria Amador, who in 1848 created a gold-mining camp near what is today Amador City. 

Plymouth

Wineries  

Famous for its Zinfandel, Amador County is home to over 30 wineries. Many of these family-owned wineries are nestled in picturesque back roads in rural Shenandoah Valley, one of California’s lesser-known wine regions increasingly becoming popular with the Napa Valley winery-weary. The 8-mile-long Shenandoah Valley has about two dozen producers. Here are some of the options in the town of Plymouth alone:  

Amador Foothill Winery
12500 Steiner Road, Plymouth
Try the Zinfandel, Sangiovese, and Fume Blanc.

Charles Spinetta Winery
12557 Steiner Road, Plymouth

Deaver Vineyards
12455 Steiner Road, Plymouth
Great Zinfandel.

Dobra Zemlja
12505 Steiner Road, Plymouth

Domaine de la Terre Rouge
10801 Dickson Road, Shenandoah Valley near Plymouth

Karly
11076 Bell Road, Plymouth

Monteviña Winery
20680 Shenandoah School Road, Plymouth
Beautiful picnic areas.

Nine Gables Vineyard and Winery
10778 Shenandoah Road, Plymouth

Renwood and Santino Wineries
12225 Steiner Road, Plymouth
Wonderful Grandpere Zinfandel, Barbera, and Syrah. Picnic area.

Shenandoah Vineyards, Plymouth
123000 Steiner Road, Plymouth
Breath-taking views of Shenandoah Valley. Has its own art gallery on premises.

Sobon Estate
14430 Shenandoah Road, Plymouth
Founded in 1856. Farm museum on site.

Charles Spinetta Winery,
Plymouth
Rare wines.

Story Winery
10525 Bell Road, Plymouth
Great Zinfandel and Mission.

Terre Rouge Winery,
Plymouth
The Rhones are worth tasting.

TKC Vineyards
11011 Valley Drive, Plymouth
Features Zinfandels and Cabernets.

Villa Toscano
10600 Shenandoah Road, Plymouth

Vino Noceto
11011 Shenandoah Road, Plymouth
Focuses on Sangiovese.

Young's Vineyard
10120 Shenandoah Road, Plymouth

Special Attractions, Area Parks, and Recreation

The annual Amador County Fair, first begun in 1938, is held at the end of July at the Amador County Fairgrounds in Plymouth. The fair is well known to be one of the last old-time country fairs in all of California. Here, on these green lawns and beautiful grounds, visitors can enjoy a rodeo, a horse show, a miniature frontier town, a festive carnival, music, crafts, food, and more.  

The Amador Flower Farm in also located in Plymouth. This unique farm boasts 4 acres of gardens featuring 800 varieties of daylilies and hundreds of varieties of perennials and grasses.  

In one of the original D'Agostini Winery buildings dating back to 1856 at Sobon Estate Winery in Plymouth, the Shenandoah Valley Museum houses artifacts from early wine-making days.  


Dining  

Taste
9402 Main Street
Plymouth
209-245-3463  

First-rate food with an extensive beer selection and a great wine list.  

Cafe at the Park
Far Horizon 49er RV Resort Village
18265 Hwy 49
Plymouth
245-6981  

Colina de Oro
17810 Hwy 49
Plymouth
245-3278  

Gold Country Cafe
17830 S. Hwy 49
Plymouth
245-6218  

Marlene & Glen's
18726 Hwy 49
Plymouth  

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The Sierra Nevada foothills offer some of the most prized real estate in California with its historic houses, ranches, quaint Gold Rush Towns, and its lakes, streams, and rivers. Whether you’re a young family or just about to retire, enjoy the high quality of life in the small-town beautiful setting the foothills offer.  

 

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