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Low, a Rock Island official, visited the local railroad station then under construction, and inquired about its name.
Disliking the original name, he renamed the station Enid after a character in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King.
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 ".
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