A history of Antelope,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Antelope from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Named for the nearby creek, Antelope began as a tiny community along the Great Northern Railway's Bainville to Scobey branch line in 1910. That year, John and Richard Grayson built a hardware store next to the Antelope Creek Lutheran Church. A post office, bank, lumberyard, and saloon soon followed. The town was incorporated in 1913. The community thrived during its first decade, adding general mercantiles, a butcher shop, a concrete plant, restaurants, and other businesses to serve the region's growing homesteader population. Over the years, however, better roads to the south siphoned off business, and the “Biggest Little City in Eastern Montana” sank into decline.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Antelope’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewBird's eye view of Antelope, Mont…, 1915: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Antelope, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Antelope is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Antelope has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Aage and Kristine Larsen Homestead in Antelope, 12.8 miles away.
Antelope and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Bird's eye view of Antelope, Mont. and surrounding country (1915) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom the Library of Congress (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.