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Specialty Museum Attractions In Enid

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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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Specialty Museum Attractions In Enid

  • 1. 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. 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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