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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. Usually money is not used.
Hudson's Bay Company trading posts (4 C, 248 P) T. Trading posts in India (3 P) Trading posts of the Hanseatic League (1 C, 30 P) U. Trading posts in the United ...
The "factories" were not workshops or manufacturing centres but the offices, trading posts, and warehouses of foreign factors, [1] mercantile fiduciaries who bought and sold goods on consignment for their principals. The word derives from "feitoria" which means trading post in Portuguese (the first westerners to engage in trade with China).
Previously, the Philippines was seen as a trading post for international trade but in the nineteenth century it was developed both as a source of raw materials and as a market for manufactured goods. The economy of the Philippines rose rapidly and its local industries developed to satisfy the rising demands of an industrializing Europe.
Many trading posts originated when a trader with a buggy load of goods began trading products in a tent and, if business was good, built an adobe or stone building with a store, lodging for himself and his family and employees, and a special room for showing and selling Navajo-made blankets and carpets.
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English: Map adapted to text about the Crows and the fur trade in Montana. Big Horn Post #2 was built near the mouth of Bighorn River. (Montana Historic Preservation Plan (1975). Volume II. Helena. P. 127.) Fort Alexander six miles west of Forsyth. (Montana Historic Preservation Plan, p. 114.) Fort Benton (#1) near the mouth of Bighorn River in ...
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