Antone, Oregon

Antone, Oregon
Unincorporated community

Ranch house at Antone in 2011
Antone, Oregon

Location within the state of Oregon

Coordinates: 44°28′18″N 119°48′36″W / 44.47167°N 119.81000°WCoordinates: 44°28′18″N 119°48′36″W / 44.47167°N 119.81000°W
Country United States
State Oregon
County Wheeler
Named for Antone Francisco, a pioneer settler[1]
Elevation 3,458 ft (1,054 m)
Time zone PST (UTC-8)
 • Summer (DST) PDT (UTC-7)
Area code(s) 541
Coordinates and elevation from United States Geological Survey[2]

Antone is a former community in Wheeler County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.[2] Antone is south of U.S. Route 26 between Mitchell and Dayville.[3]

A gravel road called Antone Lane runs south of and roughly parallel to Route 26, to which it connects both east of Mitchell, in Wheeler County, and west of Dayville, in Grant County. The road crosses Rock Creek, a tributary of the John Day River, at Antone. The Ochoco Mountains and the Ochoco National Forest are directly south of Antone.[3]

The location was named in the early 1890s for Antone Francisco, a pioneer settler of Portuguese descent.[1] A post office operated in Antone from 1894 through 1948 except for a three-year hiatus.[1]

Antone was the site of a U.S. Army barracks built to protect miners and other travelers after Chief Paulina's Northern Paiute warriors killed several soldiers in this vicinity in 1864.[4] The barracks were along a wagon road, renamed The Dalles Military Road in about 1870, that connected The Dalles on the Columbia River with gold mines near Canyon City.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 McArthur, Lewis A.; Lewis L. McArthur (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 28. ISBN 0-87595-277-1.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Antone (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-89933-347-2.
  4. ↑ "Regional History". Oregon Paleo Lands Institute. 2013. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
  5. ↑ Corning, ed., Howard McKinley (1989) [1956]. Dictionary of Oregon History (2 ed.). Portland, Oregon: Binford & Mort Publishing. p. 241. ISBN 0-8323-0449-2.