Summary: The California Dream was alive and well in 1888. That's when some Chicago investors decided to ship 12 prefabricated houses to Southern California and sell them, sight unseen, to people tired of the East Coast weather. These Colony Houses arrived by train at a small depot known as Saticoy, then horse-drawn wagons hauled them to an undeveloped patch of land dubbed "Simiopolis," which would later become a city known as Simi Valley. Two of those houses are still standing.
