Bicentennial Story #46-Antelope & Taylor

Bicentennial Story #46-Antelope & Taylor

History of towns named Antelope in North Dakota.

7/3/1975

Father Louis Pfaller
Jack Hjort

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BS-046

Antelope, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

The name ANTELOPE has been popular in Stark County. In the 1870's there was a station of that name on the Keogh Trail where it crossed Antelope Creek near today's Dickinson airport. One town was named Antelope in 1881, but was soon changed to Taylor, and the name traveled 10 miles east and clung to the village near Young Man's Butte. It had a postoffice, store and elevator, and hung on valiantly for some sixty years, then became a ghost town. But the area is still known as Antelope, and Exit 18 on 1-94 is the Antelope Exit. (Joe Haag was unanimously elected mayor in its last election. The townsite is in his back yard.)

This is Bicentennial Story No. 46, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller, for the Stark County Historical Society.

Williams, Origin of N.D. Place Names, 291-296

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Bicentennial tape #2, Bicentennial stories 46-66