By 1827 the settlement had four dwellings, two barns, a copper shop, a school house, two gristmills, a dye house, and a sawmill. By the mid-1800s, it had expanded to include a turning shop, a paper mill, a woolen mill, a knitting mill, a foundry, a gunpowder mill, a slaughter house, a tannery and leather shop, a cider mill, and a cabinet shop. Forest Home even had came to have its own post office.