By the afternoon of the run, Enid's population was estimated at 12,000 people located in the Enid's 80-acre (320,000 m 2) town plat.
During the run, due to the Rock Island's refusal to stop, people leaped from the trains to stake their claim in the government-endorsed site. The Enid-Pond Creek Railroad War ensued when the Department of the Interior moved the government site 3 mi (5 km) south of the station prior to the land run, which was then called South Enid. Įnid is the county seat of Garfield County, and is home to the county courthouse. Enid, the rail station, (now North Enid, Oklahoma) was the original town site endorsed by the government. The name stuck.ĭuring the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in the Land Run of 1893, Enid was the location of a land office which is now preserved in its Humphrey Heritage Village, part of the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center. Some other, more free-spirited settlers, turned that sign backward to read, of course, "ENID". According to that tale, in the days following the land run, some enterprising settlers decided to set up a chuckwagon and cook for their fellow pioneers, hanging a sign that read "DINE". However, a more fanciful story of how the town received its name is popular. Disliking the original name, he renamed the station Enid after a character in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Low, a Rock Island official, visited the local railroad station then under construction, and inquired about its name.
The Broadway Tower, Enid's tallest building, was built during the city's "Golden Age".
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