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A trading post, trading station, or trading house, also known as a factory in European and colonial contexts, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded. Typically a trading post allows people from one geographic area to exchange for goods produced in another area.
York Factory, Manitoba, in 1853 The factory trading post building at Fort Clark on the left, which in turn was within a walled fort The American factories often played a strategic role as well, sometimes operating as forts, providing a degree of protection for colonists and their allies from hostile Indigenous people and from colonists and fur ...
Tuba Trading Post This page was last edited on 28 December 2023, at 03:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
The entrepôt dock of Amsterdam completed in 1830 as a warehouse to store goods entrepôt, or tax-free in transit. An entrepôt (English: / ˈ ɒ n t r ə p oʊ / ON-trə-poh; French: [ɑ̃tʁəpo] ⓘ) or transshipment port is a port, city, or trading post where merchandise may be imported, stored, or traded, usually to be exported again.
Tradio is a type of talk radio show format where listeners call in to buy or sell items and make prank calls. [1] The concept is analogous to classified ads in local newspapers and most prevalent in the south and midwest.
Snake River Trading Post; W. Willamette Trading Post This page was last edited on 13 December 2022, at 02:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Cushnoc Archeological Site, also known as Cushnoc (ME 021.02) or Koussinoc [3] or Coussinoc, is an archaeological site in Augusta, Maine that was the location of a 17th-century trading post operated by English colonists from Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts. The trading post was built in 1628 and lies on the Kennebec River.
By the early 19th century, several companies established strings of fur trading posts and forts across North America. As well, the North-West Mounted Police established local headquarters at various points such as Calgary where the HBC soon set up a store.