Article details the efforts to industrialize Enid, Oklahoma in the early 1900s by the Enid Industrial & Holding Company, a committee of the Enid Chamber of Commerce.
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Article details the efforts to industrialize Enid, Oklahoma in the early 1900s by the Enid Industrial & Holding Company, a committee of the Enid Chamber of Commerce.
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Abstract: In the early twentieth century the Enid Industrial & Holding Company, a committee of the Enid Chamber of Commerce, began a campaign to bring industrial business to the town. Aaron Preston explains the successes and failures of the Holding Company's efforts.
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The Chronicles of Oklahoma
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Preston, Aaron.Don't Knock It: The Holding Company, the Funeral of the Hammer, and the Transformation of Enid, Oklahoma, 1907-12,
article,
Spring 2016;
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2017389/:
accessed May 15, 2024),
The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org;
crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.