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The White Mountain Central Railroad is a short heritage railway at Clark's Bears in Lincoln, New Hampshire.It is notable as being one of the few places in New England with regular steam locomotive operation, [1] as well as being a very rare example of a purpose-built tourist railroad (like those found in amusement parks and theme parks) that uses standard-gauge track instead of narrow-gauge track.
Clark's Bears, named Clark's Trading Post until 2019, [1] [2] is a visitor attraction in Lincoln, New Hampshire, United States, in the White Mountains. It is known for its trained bears [ 3 ] and for the White Mountain Central Railroad , a 30-minute, 2.5-mile (4.0 km) steam-powered train ride.
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site is a partial reconstruction of the most important fur trading post on the upper Missouri River from 1829 to 1867. The fort site is about two miles from the confluence of the Missouri River and its tributary, the Yellowstone River, on the Dakota side of the North Dakota/Montana border, 25 miles from Williston, North Dakota.
This is a partial list of trading posts that existed in the area of the present U.S. State of Colorado from 1828 to approximately 1868. The 24 historic trading posts in Colorado traded goods produced outside the region to Native Americans for furs, food, and locally made goods. Trading posts also sold goods to travellers and settlers.
Yonaguska (c. 1759–1839), who was known as Drowning Bear (the English meaning of his name), was a leader among the Cherokee of the Lower Towns of North Carolina. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] During the Indian Removal of the late 1830s, he was the only chief who remained in the hills to rebuild the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians , joined by others who ...
Teslin Post; The Pas (See Pas Post) Thompson River (See Kamloops) Three Rivers; Thunder Lake; Timiskaming (Fort Témiscamingue) Touchwood Hills Post; Tree River; Fort Trial (George River) Fort Trial (Labrador Coast) Trois-Rivières (See Three Rivers) Trout Lake (see Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation) Trout Lake (Peace River) Trout Lake ...
This new trading post was not profitable and in July 1857, Bent leased it briefly to the United States Army and ran it again as a trading post. [3] By 1860, an area near the fort was a distribution point for annuity goods for the Cheyenne and Arapaho, who were starving and in need of the provisions as they headed east for a buffalo hunt; "their ...
[2] Hand tinted photo of Garden of the Gods Trading Post, ca 1930, with Navajo and Pueblo Indians seated on porch. Strausenback died in 1957 and the trading post continued to be run by his widow Esther until 1979. [citation needed] At that time the trading post came under the proprietorship of T.A.T. Enterprises, which still owns the trading post.