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October 15, 1966 [ 2] Designated NHL. December 12, 1960 [ 3] Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site is a historic site on Highway 191, north of Chambers, with an exhibit center in Ganado, Arizona. It is considered a meeting ground of two cultures between the Navajo and the settlers who came to the area to trade.
For isolated posts, resupply took longer. Supplying the Oljato post of the Wetherills required a 21-day round trip from Gallup, New Mexico in the early 1900s. [15] Trading posts became more accessible with automobiles and road construction. Trader Clyde Colville constructed a road to his trading post at Kayenta in 1914. [16]
Elmina Castle was erected by the Portuguese in 1482 as Castelo de São Jorge da Mina ( St. George of the Mine Castle ), also known as Castelo da Mina or simply Mina (or Feitoria da Mina ), in present-day Elmina, Ghana, formerly the Gold Coast. It was the first trading post built on the Gulf of Guinea, and the oldest European building in ...
American historic carpentry. The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America. American historic carpentry is the historic ...
Trading post. 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 the location of the trading post allows people from one geographic area to trade in goods produced in another area.
66000370 [ 1] Added to NRHP. October 15, 1966. Fort Vancouver was a 19th-century fur trading post built in the winter of 1824–1825. [ 2] It was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company 's Columbia Department, located in the Pacific Northwest. Named for Captain George Vancouver, the fort was located on the northern bank of the Columbia ...
Hudson's Bay Company's first inland trading post was established by Samuel Hearne in 1774 with Cumberland House, Saskatchewan. [46] [47] Conversely, a number of inland HBC "houses" pre-date the construction of Cumberland House, in 1774.
Fort Raymond. Fort Raymond was an outpost established by fur trader Manuel Lisa. Alternatively it was called either Manuel's Fort or Fort Manuel. It was the first trading post maintained by European descendants in the modern state of Montana .