# Antone, Oregon

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**Antone** was an [unincorporated community](/source/Unincorporated_area) in [Wheeler County](/source/Wheeler_County,_Oregon), in the U.S. state of [Oregon](/source/Oregon).[2] Antone is south of [U.S. Route 26](/source/U.S._Route_26_in_Oregon) between [Mitchell](/source/Mitchell,_Oregon) and [Dayville](/source/Dayville,_Oregon).[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](/source/Grant_County,_Oregon). The road crosses Rock Creek, a tributary of the [John Day River](/source/John_Day_River), at Antone. The [Ochoco Mountains](/source/Ochoco_Mountains) and the [Ochoco National Forest](/source/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](/source/Portuguese_people) 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](/source/Chief_Paulina)'s [Northern Paiute](/source/Northern_Paiute) warriors killed several soldiers in this vicinity in 1864.[4] The barracks were along a wagon road, renamed [The Dalles Military Road](/source/The_Dalles_Military_Road) in about 1870, that connected [The Dalles](/source/The_Dalles,_Oregon) on the [Columbia River](/source/Columbia_River) with gold mines near [Canyon City](/source/Canyon_City,_Oregon).[5]

## References

1. McArthur, Lewis A. & Lewis L. McArthur (2003 [1928]). *[Oregon Geographic Names](/source/Oregon_Geographic_Names)*. 7th ed. Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 28. ISBN 0-87595-277-1.

1. 1137265. Retrieved August 5, 2011.

1. *Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer*. 7th ed. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-89933-347-2.

1. ["Regional History"](http://www.paleolands.org/find/time/here/C45). Oregon Paleo Lands Institute. 2013. Retrieved August 5, 2013.

1. Corning, Howard McKinley (ed.) (1989 [1956]). *Dictionary of Oregon History*. 2 ed. Portland, Oregon: Binford & Mort Publishing. p. 241. ISBN 0-8323-0449-2.

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