Saticoy is an unincorporated community in Ventura County, California. The settlement was laid out in 1887 along the railroad line that was being built from Los Angeles through the Santa Clara River Valley to the town of Ventura. The Saticoy Literary and Social Club, otherwise known as the Saticoy Poinsettia Club, was incorporated on June 14, 1899. It was established during a time when men would gather in fraternal organizations, billiard halls, saloons and at political rallies. In the isolated rural area of only eight hundred inhabitants, a group of women sought their own places of refuge in the form of a literary and social club. Initially, the club meetings were dedicated to socializing, studying the classics, and drinking tea. The first meeting was held in Anna Campbell’s house and included the following women: O. Belle Arnold, Agnes B. Clark, Carrie A. Darling, Jean B. Duval, Emma B. Kellogg, Adeline A. Kelsey, Lizzie A. Kimball, Jennie Sharp and Luna Layne. Membership dues were twenty-five cents a year, members were fined five cents for missing meetings, only fifteen members were permitted at any given time, and aspiring members were accepted or rejected through a secret ballot vote of the membership. The name of the club was changed to Poinsettia Club of Saticoy on April 9, 1902, just as Poinsettias were becoming a large local crop in the region. After incorporation, meetings quickly broadened to activities designed to, “promote the civic, social and educational life of its members, for the betterment of the community in which they live”. This included discussing current events, home economics, fundraising, scholarships, book clubs, educational workshops, arts and crafts and involvement in national, state and local causes. They helped fund local parks, the public library and sent aid to survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake among other charitable activities.