Antelope, Texas, population 65

Texas has a number of places you have to want to go to if you are there. Or, maybe you took a wrong turn from a state highway and wound up on a Farm to Market road or a county road.

Antelope is one of those places. Antelope has a cemetery, with 745 tombstones as of May 2013.

http://www.jackcountytexas.info/Cemeteries/antelope.htm

Still standing, but not for too many more centuries, are the community center and high school gymnasium.

https://photosbytorin.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/days-gone-by-in-antelope-tx/

The gym was built in 1938 by Works Progress Administration. WPA built several hundred gyms in Texas during the Great Depression, every one recognizable from the native stone construction. Some places there used to be complete schools, including teacher’s houses, but most of those have been torn down and replaced by modern buildings.

The Handbook of Texas on-line says this about Antelope:

“The community was in a ranching area near the West Fork of the Trinity River and became an overnight stop and supply point on the cattle trails. In 1875 Walter S. Jones platted and surveyed the six blocks around the town square, but the papers were not filed until 1889. By 1890 Antelope had a population of 300, a hotel, several general stores, Methodist and Baptist churches, a school, and daily stages to Henrietta and Graham for a two-dollar fare. A saw and grist mill operated in the community until 1900, when a cotton mill replaced the gristmill. The area was a popular overnight stop for drummers. By 1914 the population was 200. The community still had several general stores, a physician, and a blacksmith but no hotel or mill. The population was 166 in the 1940s. The Mullins Brothers general store, which had opened in 1883, was still in business, and the community had a garage and filling station, the Methodist and Baptist churches, and a school. The community's economy was supported by stock raising and nearby oilfields. In the 1980s the population fell to sixty-five, where it remained in 1990 and 2000. Two businesses remained in the community.”

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hna35

Here is a satellite image:

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4417748,-98.3697722,2575m/data=!3m1!1e3

Pretty much what you expect for that part of Texas.

Antelope United Methodist Church is west of town on Antelope Road, but in Windhurst. If you search on Google, though, you will not get a hit for Windhurst.