In South Florida, pioneer women from distant urban areas were lonely and isolated in the pines and palmettos. On February 14, 1912, six women met at Eleanor Jordan’s home and founded the Coco Plum Thimble Club, with “Mother” Jordan as first president. Membership grew so quickly that a clubhouse was needed within a year. Mary Dorn, the second president, located five acres owned by the Florida East Coast Railway for $150. The club had only $100 from events and 50-cent annual dues, but Dorn wrote to James Ingraham at the railway offering $100 and arguing that a public building on the site would benefit Larkins, and he agreed to sell the land. With no money left for construction, the club issued $5 scrip redeemable when funds became available, and a simple frame clubhouse with wide porches was built on the Larkins Wagon Trail. In 1916, the club incorporated as the Woman’s Club of Larkins. In 1926, as George Merrick’s Coral Gables Corporation expanded, it paid $100,000 for four of the five acres. Under president Carrie Ravlin, the present Mediterranean Revival clubhouse, designed by Howard & Early, was built in 1926 by the Knight Construction Company for $75,000. For more than 100 years, the club served as a community center and was affiliated with the Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. Its name changed to Coco Plum Woman’s Club in 1926. Although founded for social purposes, it soon embraced literary, scientific, and philanthropic goals. In 1915, Pollyanna began a free library that grew to 16,000 volumes by 1969 and enriched mostly students as well as many adults. Beginning in 1945, the club housed a kindergarten for 26 years. In the summer of 1948, its Book Wagon became Florida’s first traveling library. In the 1950s, the club was recognized three years in a row as one of the top 250 Honor Roll Clubs in the United States for community service. Its Round the Clock Civil Defense Program on September 16, 1957, brought county, state, and national recognition. The clubhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, and in 2012 the mayor gave the club a Key to the City of Coral Gables and a proclamation honoring a century of service and the women who created it.