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Enid is a city in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 49,379, making it the ninth-largest city in Oklahoma. It is the county seat of Garfield County. Enid was founded during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in the Land Run of 1893, and is named after Enid, a character in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King. In 1991, the Oklahoma state legislature designated Enid the purple martin capital of Oklahoma. Enid holds the nickname of Queen Wheat City and Wheat Capital of Oklahoma and the United States for its immense grain storage capacity, and has the third-largest grain storage capacity in the world.
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Museums Attractions In Enid

  • 2. Railroad Museum of Oklahoma Enid
    The Railroad Museum of Oklahoma is a railroad museum located in the former Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe freight depot in Enid, Oklahoma. The museum began in 1977 and is a non-profit operated by the Enid chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. The freight depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. It features two rooms of operating HO and N-gauge model railroads, a reference library, dining car china, 16 pieces of rolling stock, and other railroad artifacts. The museum also leads bi-annual trips utilizing cabooses from historical Enid area rail service. The museum is built next to a freight yard.
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  • 3. Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Enid
    The Cherokee Outlet referred to as the Cherokee Strip, was located in what is now the state of Oklahoma, in the United States. It was a sixty-mile wide strip of land south of the Oklahoma-Kansas border between the 96th and 100th meridians. It was about 225 miles long and in 1891 contained 8,144,682.91 acres . Enid and Woodward fall within the historical boundaries of the Cherokee Outlet. The Cherokee Strip was a two-mile strip running along the northern border of much of the Cherokee Outlet, and it was the result of a surveying error. This section of land was known as the Cherokee Strip but the term has often been applied to the whole of the Cherokee Outlet.
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  • 4. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Norman
    The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum located on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. The museum was founded in 1899 by an act of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature, and opened its doors on its current location in 1999. The museum contains approximately 7 million objects and specimens in 12 collections. It has almost 50,000 sq ft of exhibit space, with five galleries and exhibits that provide an in-depth tour of Oklahoma’s natural history. It is one of the world's largest university-based natural history museums.Before its 1999 relocation and expansion, the original museum chartered by the Legislature in 1899 had been known in much smaller quarters on campus as the Stovall Museum of Science & History, named for J. Willis Stovall, a paleontolo...
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  • 5. Oklahoma Route 66 Museum Clinton Oklahoma
    A Route 66 museum is a museum devoted primarily to the history of U.S. Route 66, a U.S. Highway which served the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois, in the United States from 1926 until it was bypassed by the Interstate highway system and ultimately decommissioned in June 1985. In many towns and US states on the former highway, the initial efforts to establish museums to preserve the road's history were led by individual state-level Route 66 associations or local groups. As each museum is an independent entity, their content varies widely; some cover one state or region, while others cover the entire eight-state route, and many extend to related topics varying from the pre-highway transportation history of a state to the Dust Bowl exo...
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