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unusual facts about Trading post


Narragansett Council

It was used for several summers as the first camp Trading Post, as well as being used for year-round camping.


Desilo

After intense excavations in the area of Hutovo Blato in the autumn of 2008, archaeologists from University of Oslo, Norway together with Dr. Vasilj found the very first traces of an Illyrian trading post from at least the 2nd-1st centuries BC.

Duarte Barbosa

In 1500 his uncle Gonçalo Gil Barbosa, after traveling in the 1500 fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral, was left as factor in Kochi, and in 1502 was transferred to Kannur.

Fort Bernard

Fort Bernard was a small trading post in Wyoming, along the North Platte River on the Oregon Trail.

Pêro Vaz de Caminha

In 1500, Pêro Vaz de Caminha, already at advanced age, was appointed as secretary of the factory projected to be built in Calicut, India, under the designated royal factor Aires Correia.


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Anthony Sadowski

Whether or not he opened an Indian trading post on the shores of Lake Erie and gave his name to Sandusky, Ohio, here lies the greatest Polish frontiersman of colonial times, an organizer of Amity Township in 1719, and founder of the Sandusky family in America.

Augustin Ravoux

Jean-Baptiste Faribault, a prolific and influential French Canadian trader who had an established trading post in Little Prairie (present day Chaska), was an ardent proselytizer and invited Ravoux to his post to continue his linguistic studies.

Colorado State Highway 194

Roughly four miles east of La Junta, SH 194 travels past Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, a reconstructed 19th century trading post located on the south side of the road.

Commerce City, Colorado

In 1859, John D. "Colonel Jack" Henderson built a ranch, trading post, and hotel on Henderson Island in the South Platte River in Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory.

Donald MacLaren

After recovering MacLaren, his father and his brother opened a fur trading post at a remote point on the Peace River.

Duncan, Oklahoma

After learning that an extension of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad was being built from Kansas to Texas, Scotsman William Duncan brought his wife, parents, and other relatives and created a trading post situated at the intersection of the north-south Chisholm Trail and the east-west military passage between Fort Arbuckle and Fort Sill.

Elphinstone, Manitoba

The Keeseekoowenin Ojibway First Nation reserve is located just to the north, around the former Riding Mountain House trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).

Fishing Lakes

Fort Qu'Appelle, between Echo and Mission Lakes, was originally a Hudson's Bay Company trading post; the original factor's buildings are maintained as a museum.

Fort des Épinettes

Fort des Épinettes was a trading post or posts on the Assiniboine River from 1768 to 1811.

Fort Montagne à la Bosse

Fort Montagne à la Bosse (literally "Hump Mountain") was a North West Company trading post from 1790 until 1805 or after.

Fort Paskoya

Fort Paskoya or Paskoyac or Pasquia was a French fort and trading post on the lower Saskatchewan River above Cedar Lake (Manitoba).

Fort Pierre

One of two trading post forts with this name that were located in what is now South Dakota.

Fort Robidoux

It was founded in 1832 after Antoine Robidoux bought out the Reed Trading Post that had been in operation at that site since 1828.

Fort St. Vrain

Fort Saint Vrain (also known as St. Vrain's Fort), a historic 19th century trading post in northern Colorado.

Fortress of Louisbourg

In 1748, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the War of the Austrian Succession, restored Louisbourg to France in return for territory gained in the Austrian Netherlands and the British trading post at Madras in India.

French people in Nebraska

In 1822 the Missouri Fur Company built a headquarters and trading post about nine miles north of the mouth of the Platte River on the site of Fontenelle's Post.

Gabriel Jönsson

Started a trading post/store in Ålabodarna, and later on the island Hven, Husvik.

Glendale School

It was deemed significant as the first educational institution in the "Truckee Meadows" area, where, in 1857, Charles C. Gates and John F. Stone created a rope ferry across the Truckee River and opened a trading post, leading to further development.

Grandfather Falls

These derive from voyageurs working for John Baptiste DuBay, who ran a trading post for the John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company near Fort Winnebago, and built a pioneering trading post and homestead near Knowlton.

Hattusa

In the 19th and 18th centuries BC, merchants from Assur in Assyria established a trading post there, setting up in their own separate quarter of the city.

Hendrik Godfried Duurkoop

Duurkoop took up his duties as Opperhoofd or chief negotiant and officer of the VOC trading post or "factory" at Dejima island in the harbor of Nagasaki, Japan in November 1776.

History of Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Beale writes of the place "I rode yesterday with Mr. Green up this stream for about three miles, and discovered on a small tributary of it the remains of old Choteau's trading post; looking among the ruins, I found a human skull, which I tied behind my saddle, and brought back to camp." Apparently at this time Chisholm was not doing business here as there is no mention of him.

History of Corpus Christi, Texas

Corpus Christi was founded in 1839 by Colonel Henry Lawrence Kinney as Kinney's Trading Post, or Kinney's Ranch, a small trading post to sell supplies to a Mexican revolutionary army camped about 25 miles west, just three years after Texas declared independence from Mexico but the post was located in the disputed territory south of the Nueces River.

History of Kinshasa

The city was founded as a trading post by Henry Morton Stanley in 1881 and named Léopoldville in honor of King Léopold II of Belgium, who controlled the vast territory that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as a colony.

Islam in Finland

Al-Idrisi also mentions the Port of Turku reflecting the Port of Turku's status as a capital city and major Baltic Sea trading post.

Ivanhoe Lake

The lake is known as Pishkanogami in the Anishinaabe language, and was once the site of Pishkanogami Post, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post.

Jane Frazier

On October 1, 1755, while returning to her home from the Fort Cumberland Trading Post several miles away, Jane was captured by Indians and taken to the Miami River in Ohio.

John D. Henderson

In 1859, Henderson built a ranch, trading post, and hotel on Henderson Island in the South Platte River in Arapaho County, Kansas Territory.

John Purss

The businessmen partnered with Jean-Baptiste Bouchette in 1765 to take advantage of his trading post and Gulf of Saint Lawrence fishery.

Louis Vasquez

By 1843 they had built Fort Bridger on Blacks Fork of the Green River, which became as much an emigrant station as trading post.

Lowden, Washington

The Walla Walla tribe had raided a trading post at Fort Walla Walla, and their chief, Peopeomoxmox (also known as Yellow Bird), had reportedly vowed to kill Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens.

Machiasport, Maine

So in 1634, the trading post was sacked by French forces from Port Royal under the command of Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour.

Mary Musgrove

John and Mary owned land in Colleton County and in 1732 they were asked by the Carolina Governor and the Yamacraws, a group of Creeks and Yamasees, to start a trading post near the Savannah River.

Michel Brisbois

Built in 1815, the Michel Brisbois House served as a trading post and warehouse of the American Fur Company.

Monjo Company

In June 1913, Monjo sent two traders, George Cleveland and Mr. Bumpus to establish a trading post at Cape Fullerton.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Monroe County, Michigan

These listings include a lighthouse, statue, four houses, trading post, former factory, battlefield (Battle of Frenchtown), and six historic districts — one of which is an undeveloped archeological district.

Nemaha County, Nebraska

The grounds of modern Indian Cave State Park mark where the county's first community -- St. Deroin, Nebraska was founded in 1853 by members of the reservation as a trading post on the Missouri River.

Nizampatnam

The Dutch occupied the city as a trading post from 1606 to 1668.

Old Fort Providence, Northwest Territories

It is most certain however that in 1789, Alexander Mackenzie initiated a period of trade with the Yellowknives Dene and Dogrib Dene and instructed his assistant, Mr. Leroux, to start a trading post at this location.

Peel County, Ontario

Village of Port Credit, in Toronto Township, named for French trading post Port-de-crédit.

Philip Dimmitt

By May, he had formed a trading post, with James Gourley, Jr., near what is now Calallen.

Pierre Chouteau, Jr.

In 1847 Pierre and his brother Auguste established Fort Benton in present-day Chouteau County, Montana as the last fur trading post on the Upper Missouri River.

Riding Mountain House

Riding Mountain House was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post set up to the south of what is now the Riding Mountain National Park, on the Little Saskatchewan River.

Robidoux Pass

The area was named for members of the Robideau family, either Antoine or Joseph E. Robideau (also spelled Robidoux), who in the 1840s maintained a trading post east of the gap and later one at Scottsbluff.

Seven Islands of Bombay

The Seven Islands were the site of a Portuguese trading post that was made over to England under this title as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza, married to Charles II in 1661.

Tavani

Tavani, Nunavut, uninhabited mining camp and later trading post in Canada

Wagluhe

In 1849, Old Chief Smoke moved his Wagluhe camp to Ft. Laramie, Wyoming when the U.S. Army first garrisoned the old trading post to protect and supply wagon trains of white migrants along the Oregon Trail.

Walhalla, North Dakota

In town is the Kittson Trading Post, established by Norman Kittson, an American Fur Company agent, in 1843.