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Fun Facts About Vance AFB

• Commander Eileen Marie Collins, who graduated from the Vance Air Force Base in 1979, was the first woman to command a space shuttle mission.
• Enid, Oklahoma is home to the state’s oldest symphony orchestra. The Enid Symphony Orchestra began in 1905.
• The Railroad Museum of Oklahoma, located in the city, has one of the prime collections in the United States of railroad objects.
• A city with a long history of baseball, Enid’s Majors youth baseball team won the American Legion Baseball World Series in 2005.
• Enid has more AMBUCS members than any other city in the nation. AMBUCS is a national charitable service organization whose aim is to bring freedom to those with disabilities.
• The city partners with Northern Oklahoma College and Northwestern Oklahoma State University so that its residents have access to beneficial higher education.
• Enid was once the home of Geronimo Motor Co. It was incorporated in 1917 but closed not very long later in 1920 due to a large factory fire. The old automobile is usually showcased at city events or parades.
• Once named “Skeleton Station,” legend has it that M.A. Low, a vice president and general counsel for Rock Island named it “Enid” after the poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson.