Antelope is a city in rural Wasco County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2020 census, Antelope had a population of 37.
Post office and abandoned building in Antelope
The historic Antelope School building, which currently houses municipal offices and various community functions including the annual harvest dinner event
A plaque at the Antelope post office commemorates local resistance to the Rajneeshee movement
Rajneeshpuram was a religious intentional community in the northwest United States, located in Wasco County, Oregon. Incorporated as a city between 1981 and 1988, its population consisted entirely of
Antelope, Oregon
…City Trail. It was incorporated as the City of Antelope in 1901. In the early 1980s, hundreds of members of the Rajneesh movement moved in and built a small city in previously unoccupied land they purchased. The Rajneeshees effectively took over the government of the city by outnumbering the original residents…
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers in Pune, India. 1977.
Rajneesh greeted by followers on one of his daily "drive-bys" in Rajneeshpuram. Circa 1982.