Antone is a former community in Wheeler County, in the U.S. state of

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. Antone is south of U.S. Route 26 between Mitchell and Dayville. 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

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. The road crosses Rock Creek, a tributary of the

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, at Antone. The

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and the

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are directly south of Antone. The location was named in the early 1890s for Antone Francisco, a pioneer settler of

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descent. A post office operated in Antone from 1894 through 1948 except for a three-year hiatus. 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. The barracks were along a wagon road, renamed The Dalles Military Road in about 1870, that connected

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on the Columbia River with gold mines near Canyon City.

References

Unincorporated communities in Wheeler County, Oregon 1894 establishments in Oregon Populated places established in 1894 Unincorporated communities in Oregon {{WheelerCountyOR-geo-stub