Antlers is a city in and the county seat of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,221 as of the 2020 United States census. The town was named for a kind of tree that becomes festooned with antlers shed by deer, and is taken as a sign of the location of a spring frequented by deer.
Antlers historic train station
Part of historic downtown Antlers
Pushmataha County, Oklahoma
Pushmataha County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,812. Its county seat is Antlers.
The Pushmataha County Courthouse in Antlers.
Page from The Jubilee Singers, 1873
Chief Pushmataha, 1824. From History of the Indian Tribes of North America.
Peter Pitchlynn, Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation during the Civil War.