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DId John Wilkes Booth die in Enid?? After assassinating President Abraham Lincoln, Booth was smuggled by the Confederate underground to Texas, where he began living under the name John St. Helen. In the 1870s he worked as a bartender in a saloon in Granbury, Texas, and began telling people about his past. When the Knights of the Golden Circle found out, the decision was made to silence him. Booth fled Granbury. Jesse James, along with William "Wild Bill" Lincoln (a distant cousin of President Lincoln), tracked Booth to Enid, Oklahoma, where he had assumed the name David George. In a sworn statement, "Wild Bill" Lincoln wrote: "Our branch of the Lincoln family was never satisfied with what really happened to Booth, and I spent fourteen years of my life running down the true story. Strangely enough, I learned it from Jesse W. james, head of the Confederate underground. I was present at Booth's real death." According to Lincoln, he and James crept into Booth's room and tricked him into drinking a glass of arsenic-laced lemonade. The massive amount of arsenic consumed by Booth caused his body to mummify. James arranged for the body to be exhibited on a national carnival tour. The mummy's present whereabouts are unknown.
Lots of antique cars from Enid residents were used in the movie (a lot more were not as people didn't want machine gun bullet holes in their cars!) Many Enid residents landed bit parts in the movie. Cast included: Warren Oates .... John Dillinger Ben Johnson .... Melvin Purvis Michelle Phillips .... Billie Frechette Cloris Leachman .... Anna Sage Harry Dean Stanton .... Homer Van Mete
Quotes from Jurassic Park III: The last lines in the movie: Erik: Where do you think they're going? Dr. Grant: I don't know. Maybe just looking for new nesting grounds. It's a whole new world for them. Amanda: I dare 'em to nest in Enid, Oklahoma. According to a prop from the film, the Kirby's live at "333 Seneca Ave" in Enid, Oklahoma. Both Seneca Ave and Westgate Rd (the location of Kirby Paint & Tile Plus) are real roads in Enid. (From: SeanArcher) Where in Oklahoma is the Westgate Shopping Center located? Enid. Listen closely when everybody went back to the plane to get their stuff.
Remember the TV show "The Rifleman"?  In the eipisode "The Guest" (season five) they named the hometown of Lucas McCain as Enid, Oklahoma. And another mention was: The old Dunlop place was burned and replaced with the house we came to know & love. If you remember, the rebuilt house was the same house Lucas had back in Enid, Oklahoma. As Luke said to Mark...."same house, same barn and except for the cross that bears your Mother's grave at the create of that hill, same hills".
The first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission, Commander Eileen Marie Collins. Collins graduated in 1979 from Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance AFB, Oklahoma, where she was a T-38 instructor pilot until 1982. OK Pilot Picked as First Female for New Aircraft. Second Lieutenant Sara Faibisoff a U.S. Marine pilot at Vance Air Force Base in Enid is the first female assigned to fly the new V-22 Osprey.
Oklahoma has produced more astronauts than any other state. These include Major General Thomas P. Stafford (Weatherford); Gordon Cooper (Shawnee);  Owen Garriott (Enid); Shannon Lucid (Oklahoma City) and William Reid Pogue (Okemah).
The classic wooden carousel at Meadowlake Park was built in 1925 and was located in Hellum's Amusement Park, Lake Hellum's north of Enid from 1928 to 1965 when it was moved to Meadowlake Park a former Trolley Park. Carousel runs clockwise!
Dr. Henry B. McKenzie arrived in Enid September 16, 1893 and immediately took care of two persons with broken legs. He also delivered the first baby born in Enid on September 30, 1893. Her name was Enid Mae McKenzie Hungate. Dr. McKenzie had a long beard extending almost to his knees. However, he usually kept his beard neatly tucked up under his chin with hair pins. It is interesting that the first Bermuda grass lawn in Enid was started by them from a shoe box of grass brought from Texas. (Photo with description was purchased from the estate sale of Darrel E. Keahey, an old-time Enid photographer, by Betty Jo Scott)
Team #20 1922 Enid Harvesters (104-27) By Bill Weiss & Marshall Wright, Baseball Historians (This is the 81st article in a series of the 100 greatest Minor League Baseball teams. See "Top 100 Teams" for archived stories) In the early 1920s, a team representing a small town in a long defunct league finished with a winning record the likes of which have never been equaled. However, to accomplish this goal, the team needed help from a team that went belly-up three weeks before the end of the season. The town of Enid, located in north-central Oklahoma, joined the ranks of pro baseball in 1904. Here, a team called the Evangelists won a first half title in the Class D Southwestern League, finishing with a combined 46-37 record in their sole year in the league. Four years later, Enid joined the Class C Western Association, a league which featured teams in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. In their first season, the Railroaders finished dead last with a record of 38-99. The team then enjoyed a complete turnaround in 1909, winning the pennant with an 82-44 mark. After a second place finish the following year, the team dropped out of the league. More.................
During World War II Enid Air Force Base had a baseball team called the Enid Airs.
President Grover Cleveland designated September 16, 1893, as the date of the "run." On that day, an estimated 100,000 people rushed in from the borders to stake a claim. They came by horse, train, wagon, and even on foot, all trying to claim the best farmland or town lot. Many of the hopeful settlers remained landless, shunning the rough terrain in the western part of the Outlet. By the end of the day, farms were being established, and the cities of Enid, Perry, Alva, and Woodward had risen out of what had been virgin prairie the day before Photographs
Each year since 1935, the National Baseball Congress has gathered together the top-ranked semi-pro baseball teams in the country for a tournament to determine the best team in the nation. Backed by the rich oil-producing companies, the team from Enid, Oklahoma, took top honors at the National Baseball Congress World Series in 1937, again sending the Bona Allen team home with the second place cup.
What was the result of the Paranormal Activity Investigation of the "Ghost of the Gaslight"? The ghost was known to be in the former home of the Gaslight Theatre (Alton Mercantile Company Building), Enid, Oklahoma. "Spirited" Stories Surrounding the Places and People of Enid's Oldest Theatres.
CESSNA AIRCRAFT COMPANY Inc. Clyde V. Cessna who was originally a motor mechanic, built his first aircraft at Enid, Oklahoma in the Spring of 1911. In 1917 he moved to Wichita, Kansas.
Geronimo. N.d. but c. 1917. Circular board. Superlative illustration of Chief Geronimo in profile, in shield, with wreath. "...Enid, Okla." Geronimo automobile items of any description are virtually uncollectible; one of the foremost literature collectors had only one piece, torn and incomplete, in his lifelong collection. The original artwork for this logo is a remarkable item.
Nathaniel Ellsworth Wyatt, alias Zip Wyatt, alias Dick Yeager, alias Wild Charlie, had come with his parents from Indiana at the time of the 1889 land opening, settling 10 miles n.e. of Guthrie on Cowboy Flat. His parents, poor and almost illiterate, but with hopes for success in this new area, didn't know the publicity their sons would soon bring to their family. One of Dick Yeager's brothers was "Six- Shooter Jack" who died in a shooting in 1891. Dick was a member of the Dalton-Doolin gang, and later formed the Wyatt-Black gang. He came to his demise in 1895 in Enid. more ....
ENID, Oklahoma mentioned or described in "Tom Mix Frontier Bartender" by Sam Henderson as written up in an old western magazine covering the life of Tom Mix.
While good data is scarce at the local level, economic output is the best overall measure of economic performance. Economy.com assembles data on metropolitan economic output (MEO) annually. In 2002, the NY City region had the largest economic output, which was valued at $523 billion. The Phoenix metro area, by comparison, had a MEO of $133 billion. The Cleveland region weighed in at $88 billion. Meanwhile, Fort Wayne, IN was $17.1 billion. Finally, Enid, Ok was the smallest of the 318 ranked metro areas with a MEO of $1.6 billion. (posted by Don Iannone @ Sunday, August 03, 2003)
The Enid land office, to prove a claim, required evidence indicating that basic improvements of a permanent nature had been made, such as digging a well, or erecting a house. Many settlers satisfied this requirement by digging a dugout or erecting a sod house. One group of imaginative settlers proved their individual claims by transporting a shanty 14x16 from Kansas onto a claim, proving up, and repeating this procedure three times with the same shanty.
Freak accidents resulting in fright, blindness or death At Enid, Oklahoma T. John Ralston was sitting on a porch in front of the Glass Mountain House, smoking and enjoying the coolness of the evening. Suddenly a bat darted into his face, either designedly or by accident, and both eyeballs were punctured. Efforts at restoring his sight failed and he was blind for the rest of his life.
Sherman Billingsley, who founded the famed Stork Club, grew up in Enid, Okla. In its heyday, the Stork Club was not an ordinary urban watering hole. Under Billingsley's command, the Stork Club became famous all over America. It was a key New York social institution, its owner one of the most powerful arbiters of the era's overlapping contests for status. Book excerpt: "One night in 1940, back in New York, Hemingway had grandiosely tried to pay his bar bill at the Stork with a $100,000 royalty check he had gotten for the screen rights to For Whom the Bell Tolls. (A hundred thousand dollars in 1940 would be $1.2 million today.) Billingsley shook his head; no way he could cash that check, not then. But if Hemingway could wait until closing time . . . Then, amazingly, Billingsley did cash it, although it is hard to imagine how, with the club then grossing -- officially, anyway -- by Billingsley's account, $3,500 a night. Now Billingsley needed a favor back. Could Hemingway recommend a good lawyer in Key West? There was this Stork Club there . . ." -- from the first chapter of 'Stork Club'
August 12 1860- Austin, Texas- Temple Lea Houston (1860-1905), the son of Texas President and governor Sam Houston, was born. He was the first child born in the Governor's Mansion at Austin. In 1873, at the age of thirteen, he joined a cattle drive to Great Bend, Kansas. Later he worked his way east and was employed as a night clerk on a riverboat. Later he enrolled at Baylor University, where he studied law and philosophy and graduated with honors in 1880. Houston became the youngest practicing lawyer in Texas. Houston won a great reputation as a trial lawyer and as a speaker. He carried a pearl-handled pistol, wore shoulder-length hair, a white sombrero, and rattlesnake ties. Houston moved on to Oklahoma after the territory opened up to settlers.  Picture from WikipediaOnce, while he was in Enid on business, an unknown assailant fired on him, but a copy of the Oklahoma Territorial Statutes that he was carrying stopped the bullet. Houston incorporated the firing of a six-shooter loaded with blanks into his courtroom theatrics on one occasion. After the jury scattered Houston declared them no longer sequestered. On August 15, 1905, Houston died from a brain hemorrhage at his home in Woodward. Among the several fictional characters inspired by Houston's life was that of Yancey Cravat in Edna Ferber's novel Cimarron.
Remember the locomotive that used to site on the corner across the street east from Pak-a-Sak on East Maine? Chicago; Pacific 938 was the last Rock Island locomotive under steam on the railroad's official dieselization date, September 16, 1953.  Photo by R. W BuhrmasterEmployed to that date in commuter service, 938 may have been the last Rock Island steam locomotive in passenger service, since the railroad had previously dieselized its inter-city passenger service. After retirement, 938 was displayed for many years in Enid, Oklahoma, at a state hospital (now St Mary's). It was purchased by the Fort Worth & Western Railroad (AKA, the "Tarantula") and trucked to Fort Worth with the boiler separated from the frame.
Published in The Oklahoman, October 13, 1901 Frank Kirk of Enid is the owner of Silver Leaf, a black stallion, that paced an eighth of a mile at Wichita in 13 ¾ seconds. This is said to be a world's record.
A Team of Firsts: On March 31, Enid, Okla., became the first community to join the America Supports You team! More than 1,300 residents rallied at Mark Price Arena in celebration. As part of this initiative, the city will adopt two military units which they will support in the coming months. The units are the 71st Security Forces Squadron from Vance Air Force Base and the 1st Battalion 24th Infantry Regiment from Ft. Lewis, Wash., currently deployed in Mosul, Iraq. The goal is to recruit 20,000 Enid residents to join the effort and support the troops. In addition, the town will participate in a flag swapping ceremony with the two units. The flags will be exchanged in Enid on July 4th
A devastating fire on July 12, 1901, led city officials to create the first Enid Fire Department. On that day, a fire wiped out the entire south side of the city. It started in the back of a secondhand store in the 200 block of South Grand. By morning, the entire block of businesses was engulfed in flames. The fire burned east destroying everything until it crossed a creek and burned out. Flying embers blew west across the street, resulting in the entire south side of the Square going up in flames. Enid's only fire protection consisted of volunteers of the moment, a two-wheeled cart with 500 feet of the fire hose and the horse-drawn Pabst Blue Ribbon hook and ladder. Three days after the fire, the city council conducted a special session to discuss the formation of a volunteer fire department. The council approved formation of Enid Fire Department on March 20, 1902 When it was created, the department consisted of two paid firefighters, each at a salary of $45 a month. The city also authorized 12 volunteers, who were paid $2 for the first hour and $1 for each additional hour of active firefighting. By 1905, the department was located in a wooden building on the southwest corner of Broadway and Grand, about where the post office flag pole now (2002) stands.
According to the Medal of Honor Historical Society, Oklahoma now has five Civil War recipients buried in the state. Another recipient was from the Indian Wars time period. Robert M. Blair Sr., Seaman, USS Pontoosuc. He was awarded the Medal of Honor on June 22, 1865 for his actions on board the USS Pontoosuc during the capture of Fort Fisher and Wilmington from December 24, 1864 to January 22, 1865. He is buried in Lot 17 of Block E in the Enid Cemetery, Enid, Oklahoma.
We don't know when it was dammed up, but there was a manmade lake of about 40 acres which extended from South Johnson and Garriott West to Cleveland. George Mosher, a dairy farmer, dammed Boggy Creek from where it crosses South Johnson today. In those days Boggy Creek had lots more water than it does today. The lake that backed up behind the dam was a popular boating and picnicking spot for Enid residents. The dam was in the low-lying area just a couple of blocks south of Garriott on Johnson. George dynamited the dam in 1912 after one of his sons drowned in the lake.
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