Editing Antelope, Montana (section)

==History==
[[File:Antelope Jail.jpg|thumb|left|Old Antelope Jail c. 2014]]
Named for the nearby creek, Antelope began as a tiny community along the [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern Railway's]] [[Bainville, Montana|Bainville]] to [[Scobey, Montana|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.<ref name="names">{{cite book|last1=Carkeek Cheney|first1=Roberta|title=Names on the Face of Montana|date=1983|publisher=Mountain Press Publishing Company|location=Missoula, Montana|isbn=0-87842-150-5|page=7}}</ref> 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.<ref>Aarstad, Rich, Ellie Arguimbau, Ellen Baumler, Charlene Porsild, and Brian Shovers. [http://mhs.mt.gov/pub/press/reference.asp#PlaceNames Montana Place Names from Alzada to Zortman] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008060633/http://mhs.mt.gov/pub/press/reference.asp#PlaceNames |date=October 8, 2009 }}. Montana Historical Society Press.</ref>

In 1967 a U.S. Navy [[gunboat]] was named the "Antelope". To mark the occasion crew members came to the town of Antelope and some of the town's citizens went to [[Tacoma, Washington]].<ref name="names" />

===School===
Antelope School was built in 1916, the gym was finished in 1945.  The school burned on October 20, 1978, students attended Plentywood school for the remainder of the year.  The school graduated 522 students from 1922 to 1979 (the 1979 graduating class was graduated at Plentwyood school but consider Antelope school their Alma mater).

===Centennial Celebration===
Antelope celebrated 100 years as a community on July 3, 2010.  They had a parade, lunch, a skit about the history of town, and a street dance, among time for people to catch up with one another and blow up games for the kids in the park.  The bar was also re-opened for the celebration as a gathering place and place to get a drink.<ref>[http://www.antelopemt.com/ Centennial homepage]</ref>