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In summer 1889, M. A.
Low, a Rock Island official, visited the local railroad station then under construction, and inquired about its name.
At that time, it was called Skeleton station.
Disliking the original name, he renamed the station Enid after a character in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King.
However, a more fanciful story of how the town received its name is much more popular.
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 ".
Some other, more free-spirited settlers, turned that sign upside down, to read, of course, " ENID ".
The name stuck.

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