Why does Maine Street in Enid have an E? It was named after the 1898 fake “attack” on the battleship Maine, which gave us an excuse to grab Cuba and the Philippines from Spaine. Remember the Maine was a national campaign to stir up war fever, the first of a hundred evil successors from Lusitania to the Red Menace to RadicalIslamicTerrorism to the “virus”.
The connection is well known in Enid, and serves as a handy shibboleth to catch non-natives. If someone writes an Enid address on Main, you know they’re Not From Here.
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