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Established on August 28, 1965, Hubbell Trading Post encompasses about 65 hectares (160 acres) and preserves the oldest continuously operated trading post on the Navajo Nation. [1] [ 4 ] From the late 1860s through the 1960s, the local trading post was the main financial and commercial hub for many Navajo people, functioning as a bank (where ...
The Lorenzo Hubbell Trading Post and Warehouse is located in the western part of the historic center of the city of Winslow, in Navajo County, Arizona. The building was built in 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, in the Winslow Historic District. [2] It currently serves as the Winslow visitor center.
Juan (or John) Lorenzo Hubbell took ownership of the trading post in 1878. The Hubbell post is now preserved as the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site. Hubbell would eventually own 30 trading posts and other establishments on the Navajo Reservation. [8] Among the most isolated trading posts was Oljato in San Juan County, Utah.
In 1902, Hubbell initiated a mail order catalog for his trading post. [5] Between 1902 and 1908, Hubbell began a large irrigation project at his Ganado location. The project included a diversion dam, with headworks, a 2.5 to 3 mile long canal from the Rio Pueblo Colorado to his ranch/trading post, flumes, bridges and extensive ditches. The ...
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site; L. Lorenzo Hubbell Trading Post and Warehouse; P. Peach Springs Trading Post; T. Thunderbird Lodge (Chinle, Arizona)
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Hubbell, his wife, three of his children, a daughter-in-law, and a granddaughter are buried on the cone-shaped hill northwest of the trading post. Many Horses, son of Ganado Mucho, is also interred at this Hubbell family cemetery. Hubbell contributed to encouraging the Ganado textiles market and local Navajo weaving houses.
A collection of 2024 holiday catalogs are displayed Monday, Nov. 25, 2024, in Freeport, Maine. Catalog retailers, reeling from U.S. postal rate increases, have responded with pint-sized catalogs ...