In Enid, Oklahoma, the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center preserves the history of the Cherokee Outlet and the Land Run of September 16, 1893. Efforts to save that story began in the 1940s, and in 1951 Harry H. McKeever began collecting artifacts and interviews from participants as the museum opened in a courthouse basement. After several moves and reorganizations, a partnership created the present center, which opened to the public in 2011. Its galleries interpret regional settlement and the growth of agriculture, oil, railroads, Phillips University, and Enid, while Humphrey Heritage Village and the research center preserve historic buildings, photographs, oral histories, newspapers, and genealogical records.