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A recreation of a typical trading post for trade with the Plains Indians

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. The barter that occurs often includes an aspect of haggling. In some examples, local inhabitants can use a trading post to exchange what they have (such as locally-harvested furs) for goods they wish to acquire (such as manufactured trade goods imported from industrialized places).^[1]

Given bulk transportation costs, exchanges made at a trading post for long-distance distribution can involve items which either party or both parties regard as luxury goods.^[2]

A trading post can consist either of a single building or of an entire town.^[3] Trading posts have been established in a range of areas, including relatively remote ones, but most often near an ocean, a river, or another source of a natural resource.^[4] A prominent geographical location and the head start provided by an early trading post ensured that trading posts feature in the history of many of today's cities, such as Timbuktu^[5] and Hong Kong.^[6]

Examples

Major towns in the Hanseatic League were known as kontors, a form of trading posts.^[7]

Charax Spasinu was a trading post between the Roman and Parthian Empires.^[8]

Manhattan and Singapore were both established as trading posts, by Dutchman Peter Minuit and Englishman Stamford Raffles respectively, and later developed into major settlements.^[9]^[10]

The City of Edmonton, Alberta began as Fort Edmonton in 1812.^[11]

The Roman Empire was able to control a large amount of land because of its efficient systems for transferring information, goods, and military expeditions across large distances. Goods specifically were vital to maintaining outposts in territories distant from Rome, such as northern Africa and western Asia. Trading posts played a large part in managing these goods, deciding where they were going and when. Goods collected at these trading posts and other parts of the Roman trade system included precious stones, fabrics, ivory, and wine. There is also evidence that cattle were traded at the Empúries trading post, established in the 6th century BCE, on the Iberian Peninsula.^[12]

North American frontier

Trading houses were typically strategically located and stocked with goods that Native Americans and other trappers would trade furs for. These goods included clothing, blankets, axes, beads, corn, wheat flour, and liquor. Eric Jay Dolin's Fur, Fortune, and Empire provides a history of trading posts in North America.

Plymouth colonists established Kennebec Trading House in 1628.^[13] This was followed by the Plymouth Penobscot trading post. Conflicts between French and Plymouth colonists occurred in 1631 when Frenchmen arrived at the Plymouth Penobscot trading post. The masters of the trading post and most of the crew were absent, leaving only a few servants (employees) to attend to the Frenchmen. When the Frenchmen learned this was the case, they feigned interest in guns available at the trading post, which when they got their hands on them, they turned back onto the servants. They obtained all valuables, leaving with £500 of goods and £300 in beaver pelts.^[14]

John Jacob Astor founded the American Fur Company (AFC). One of the great feats achieved by the AFC was the establishment of a trading post in the native Blackfoot tribe's territory, located in modern-day Montana along the Rocky Mountains. The Blackfoot tribe had killed many Euro-Americans and, up to this point, had only traded with the Hudson Bay Company. In order to erect a trading post in Blackfoot territory, the AFC needed a way to establish contact on their behalf. Jacob Berger, a trapper, offered Kenneth McKenzie to serve as this contact and get the AFC into negotiations with the Blackfoot. The talks were successful, and McKenzie was allowed to build a trading post in Blackfoot territory, adjacent to the Missouri and Marias Rivers, naming it Fort McKenzie.^[15]

The American post, Noochuloghoyet Trading Post, was established in the last 19th century in central Alaska adjacent to the Yukon River. This was an important trading post for the fur trade. It operated under different names, and its level of business activity varied greatly while it was in operation.^[16]

Other uses

In the context of scouting, trading post usually refers to a camp store in which snacks, craft materials, and general merchandise are sold.^[17] "Trading posts" also refers to a cub scout activity in which cub teams (or individuals) undertake challenge activities in exchange for points.^[18]
A "trading post" also once referred to a trading booth within the New York Stock Exchange.^[19]

Trading posts in North America

References

^ Trading post; Factory - Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, 1989
^ For example: Roesdahl, Else (30 April 1998) [1991]. The Vikings. Translated by Williams, Kirsten; Margeson, Susan (3, revised ed.). Penguin UK. ISBN 9780141941530. Retrieved 4 January 2025. Ohthere [...] also told of a journey south along the coast of Norway to the trading centre of Sciringesheal (this is most likely Kaupang in Westfold). [...] From Sciringesheal he took five days to sail to Hedeby. Kaupang was an international trading centre and Hedeby was Scandinavia's largest trading post. The purpose of the journey was no doubt to sell products from northern Scandinavia, which were considered luxury goods and would fetch a good price, and buy luxury goods which were difficult to obtain in his home area.
^ "Santa Fe | History, Population, Map, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 2024-01-10. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
^ John C. Ewers, "The Trading Post in American Indian Life," Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1954 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1955), 389-401.
^ Duram, Leslie A. (2024). "Timbuktu. Mali". Endangered Places: Disappearing Sites around the World. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9798765111826. Retrieved 4 January 2025. Nomadic Tuareg people established Timbuktu as a seasonal camp in about 1100, likely due to the location about 8 miles (13 kilometers) from the Niger River. Timbuktu developed into an important trading post along the major caravan route through the Sahara Desert and as a center for Islamic culture.
^ Lee, Eliza W. Y. (2013). Public Policymaking in Hong Kong: Civic Engagement and State-society Relations in a Semi-democracy. Comparative development and policy in Asia series, volume 13. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 23. ISBN 9780415576055. Retrieved 4 January 2025. [...] as early as the nineteenth century [the Victoria Harbour] was already an important anchorage and passage for regional trading ships [...]. [...] Thereafter, Hong Kong rapidly developed into an important trading post.
^ "Hanseatic League". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
^ "Trade between the Romans and the Empires of Asia | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History". The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
^ Matt Soniak (October 2, 2012). "Was Manhattan Really Bought for $24?". Mental Floss. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
^ Mun Cheong Yong; V. V. Bhanoji Rao (1995). Singapore-India Relations: A Primer. NUS Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-9971-69-195-0.
^ Edmonton House Journals, Correspondence and Reports, 1806-1821 (published by the Historical Society of Alberta), p. 182
^ Colominas, L., and Edwards, C. J. (2017) Livestock Trade during the Early Roman Period: First Clues from the Trading Post of Empúries (Catalonia). Int. J. Osteoarchaeol., 27: 167– 179. doi:10.1002/oa.2527
^ Dolin, Eric Jay (2010). Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-393-06710-1. OCLC 449865266.
^ Dolin, Eric Jay (2010). Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-393-06710-1. OCLC 449865266.
^ Dolin, Eric Jay (2010). Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-393-06710-1. OCLC 449865266.
^ Turck, Thomas J., and Diane L. Lehman Turck. "Trading Posts along the Yukon River: Noochuloghoyet Trading Post in Historical Context." Arctic, vol. 45, no. 1, 1992, pp. 51–61. JSTOR, JSTOR 40511192. Accessed 25 Mar. 2023.
^ Norfolk Scout Shop, accessed 10 February 2022
^ Online Scout Manager, Trading Post - Cubs, accessed 10 February 2022
^ New York Institute of Finance, Trading post, accessed 10 February 2022

External links

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[1] Trading post; Factory - Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, 1989

[2] For example: Roesdahl, Else (30 April 1998) [1991]. The Vikings. Translated by Williams, Kirsten; Margeson, Susan (3, revised ed.). Penguin UK. ISBN 9780141941530. Retrieved 4 January 2025. Ohthere [...] also told of a journey south along the coast of Norway to the trading centre of Sciringesheal (this is most likely Kaupang in Westfold). [...] From Sciringesheal he took five days to sail to Hedeby. Kaupang was an international trading centre and Hedeby was Scandinavia's largest trading post. The purpose of the journey was no doubt to sell products from northern Scandinavia, which were considered luxury goods and would fetch a good price, and buy luxury goods which were difficult to obtain in his home area.

[3] "Santa Fe | History, Population, Map, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 2024-01-10. Retrieved 2024-01-11.

[4] John C. Ewers, "The Trading Post in American Indian Life," Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1954 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1955), 389-401.

[5] Duram, Leslie A. (2024). "Timbuktu. Mali". Endangered Places: Disappearing Sites around the World. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9798765111826. Retrieved 4 January 2025. Nomadic Tuareg people established Timbuktu as a seasonal camp in about 1100, likely due to the location about 8 miles (13 kilometers) from the Niger River. Timbuktu developed into an important trading post along the major caravan route through the Sahara Desert and as a center for Islamic culture.

[6] Lee, Eliza W. Y. (2013). Public Policymaking in Hong Kong: Civic Engagement and State-society Relations in a Semi-democracy. Comparative development and policy in Asia series, volume 13. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 23. ISBN 9780415576055. Retrieved 4 January 2025. [...] as early as the nineteenth century [the Victoria Harbour] was already an important anchorage and passage for regional trading ships [...]. [...] Thereafter, Hong Kong rapidly developed into an important trading post.

[7] "Hanseatic League". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-01-11.

[8] "Trade between the Romans and the Empires of Asia | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History". The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Retrieved 2024-01-11.

[9] Matt Soniak (October 2, 2012). "Was Manhattan Really Bought for $24?". Mental Floss. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2020.

[YongRao1995-10] Mun Cheong Yong; V. V. Bhanoji Rao (1995). Singapore-India Relations: A Primer. NUS Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-9971-69-195-0.

[11] Edmonton House Journals, Correspondence and Reports, 1806-1821 (published by the Historical Society of Alberta), p. 182

[12] Colominas, L., and Edwards, C. J. (2017) Livestock Trade during the Early Roman Period: First Clues from the Trading Post of Empúries (Catalonia). Int. J. Osteoarchaeol., 27: 167– 179. doi:10.1002/oa.2527

[13] Dolin, Eric Jay (2010). Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-393-06710-1. OCLC 449865266.

[14] Dolin, Eric Jay (2010). Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-393-06710-1. OCLC 449865266.

[15] Dolin, Eric Jay (2010). Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-393-06710-1. OCLC 449865266.

[16] Turck, Thomas J., and Diane L. Lehman Turck. "Trading Posts along the Yukon River: Noochuloghoyet Trading Post in Historical Context." Arctic, vol. 45, no. 1, 1992, pp. 51–61. JSTOR, JSTOR 40511192. Accessed 25 Mar. 2023.

[17] Norfolk Scout Shop, accessed 10 February 2022

[18] Online Scout Manager, Trading Post - Cubs, accessed 10 February 2022

[19] New York Institute of Finance, Trading post, accessed 10 February 2022

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+{{Short description|Area where economic activity between peoples is less regulated}}
-{{Copyedit|date=July 2007}}
+[[File:Trading post Bathrust (Gambia) 1900.jpg|300px|thumb|A factory at Bathurst (Gambia) around 1900]]
+[[File:Tradingpostguy.JPG|thumb|A recreation of a typical trading post for trade with the [[Plains Indians]]]]
+A '''trading post''', '''trading station''', or '''trading house''', also known as a '''[[Factory (trading post)|factory]]''' in European and [[colony | colonial]] contexts, is an establishment or settlement where [[goods and services]] could be [[trade|traded]].
-[[Image:Tradingpostguy.JPG|thumb|300px|right|A recreation of a typical trading post for trade with the [[Plains Indians]].]]
+Typically a trading post allows people from one geographic area to exchange for goods produced in another area. Usually money is not used. The [[barter]] that occurs often includes an aspect of [[Bargaining|haggling]]. In some examples, local inhabitants can use a trading post to exchange what they have (such as locally-harvested furs) for goods they wish to acquire (such as manufactured trade goods imported from industrialized places).<ref>''Trading post''; ''Factory'' - Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, 1989</ref>
-A '''trading post''' is a place where the [[Trade|trading]] of [[product (business)|goods]] takes place. The preferred travel sex to a trading post, or between trading posts, is known as a [[trade route]].
+Given bulk transportation costs, exchanges made at a trading post for long-distance distribution can involve items which either party or both parties regard as [[luxury goods]].<ref>
-Trading posts were also places for people to meet and exchange the ''news of the world'', or simply the news from their home country (many of the world's trading posts were places people loved to imigrate to) in a time when not even [[newspaper]]s existed.
+For example:
+{{cite book
+ |last1                = Roesdahl
+ |first1               = Else
+ |author-link1         = Else Roesdahl
+ |translator-last1     = Williams
+ |translator-first1    = Kirsten
+ |translator-last2     = Margeson
+ |translator-first2    = Susan
+ |date                 = 30 April 1998
+ |orig-date            = 1991
+ |title                = The Vikings
+ |url                  = https://www.google.com/books?id=S9XNbDqS7dsC
+ |edition              = 3, revised
+ |publisher            = Penguin UK
+ |pages                =
+ |isbn                 = 9780141941530
+ |access-date          = 4 January 2025
+ |quote                = [[Ohthere of Hålogaland | Ohthere]] [...] also told of a journey south along the coast of Norway to the trading centre of Sciringesheal (this is most likely Kaupang in Westfold). [...] From Sciringesheal he took five days to sail to Hedeby. Kaupang was an international trading centre and Hedeby was Scandinavia's largest trading post. The purpose of the journey was no doubt to sell products from northern Scandinavia, which were considered luxury goods and would fetch a good price, and buy luxury goods which were difficult to obtain in his home area.
+}}
+</ref>
+A trading post can consist either of a single building or of an entire town.<ref>{{cite web |date=2024-01-10 |title=Santa Fe {{!}} History, Population, Map, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Santa-Fe-New-Mexico |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> Trading posts have been established in a range of areas, including relatively remote ones, but most often near an ocean, a river, or another source of a [[natural resource]].<ref>John C. Ewers, "The Trading Post in American Indian Life," Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1954 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1955), 389-401.</ref>  A prominent geographical location and the head start provided by an early trading post ensured that trading posts feature in the history of many of today's cities, such as [[Timbuktu]]<ref>
-Trading posts in general were of great importance to the history of [[currency]]. Almost right at the start of ''trading post history'', the need occurs to have something as a payment medium.  Soon trade-tokens and eventually [[coins]] were produced from precious metals like [[gold]], [[silver]], and [[copper]] for the use of buying and selling goods instead of simply exchanging them. After the introduction of ''money'', the first [[bank]]s occurred in [[Genoa]] and [[Venice]] almost immediately.
+{{cite book
+ |last1                = Duram
+ |first1               = Leslie A.
+ |year                 = 2024
+ |chapter              = Timbuktu. Mali
+ |title                = Endangered Places: Disappearing Sites around the World
+ |url                  = https://www.google.com/books?id=7zAaEQAAQBAJ
+ |publisher            = Bloomsbury Publishing USA
+ |page                 =
+ |isbn                 = 9798765111826
+ |access-date          = 4 January 2025
+ |quote                = Nomadic Tuareg people established Timbuktu as a seasonal camp in about 1100, likely due to the location about 8 miles (13 kilometers) from the Niger River. Timbuktu developed into an important trading post along the major caravan route through the Sahara Desert and as a center for Islamic culture.
+}}
+</ref>
+and [[Hong Kong]].<ref>
+{{cite book
+ |last1                = Lee
+ |first1               = Eliza W. Y.
+ |year                 = 2013
+ |title                = Public Policymaking in Hong Kong: Civic Engagement and State-society Relations in a Semi-democracy
+ |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=QTj5TEHuY-IC
+ |series               = Comparative development and policy in Asia series, volume 13
+ |publication-place    = Abingdon
+ |publisher            = Routledge
+ |page                 = 23
+ |isbn                 = 9780415576055
+ |access-date          = 4 January 2025
+ |quote                = [...] as early as the nineteenth century [the Victoria Harbour] was already an important anchorage and passage for regional trading ships [...]. [...] Thereafter, Hong Kong rapidly developed into an important trading post.
+}}
+</ref>
+==Examples==
-European [[colonialism]] traces its roots to ancient [[Carthage]]. Originally a trading settlement of [[Phoenicia]]n colonists, Carthage grew into a vast economic and political power throughout the [[Mediterranean]], accumulating wealth and influence through its economic (trading) prowess. Almost every city of importance of the world once started its history as a trading post: [[Venice]], [[New York]], [[Shanghai]], [[Singapore]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Naples]], [[Rotterdam]], etc.
+Major towns in the Hanseatic League were known as ''[[kontor]]s'', a form of trading posts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hanseatic League |url=https://bbc.co.uk/news/extra/A2MFANtn3Z/hanseatic_league|access-date=2024-01-11|website=BBC News}}</ref>
+[[Charax Spasinu]] was a trading post between the Roman and Parthian Empires.<ref>{{cite web|title=Trade between the Romans and the Empires of Asia {{!}} Essay {{!}} The Metropolitan Museum of Art {{!}} Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/silk/hd_silk.htm |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History|language=en}}</ref>
-The [[Factory (trading post)|annexation]] of trading posts along ancient trade routes by 16th and 17th century European powers, like the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] and [[England|English]], beginning with the capture of [[Ceuta]] (a terminus of the [[Trans-Saharan trade|trans-Saharan trade route]]) by the Portuguese in 1415, who went on to establish further enclaves as they explored the coasts of Africa, Arabia, India and South East Asia in search of the source of the lucrative [[spice trade]].  Trading posts were also very common in the early settlements of [[Canada]] and the [[United States]] for the trade of such things as [[fur]]. They are also used in many camps across America as places to buy snacks, items and souvenirs.
+[[Manhattan]] and [[Singapore]] were both established as trading posts, by Dutchman [[Peter Minuit]] and Englishman [[Stamford Raffles]] respectively, and later developed into major settlements.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Matt Soniak|date=October 2, 2012|title=Was Manhattan Really Bought for $24?|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/12657/was-manhattan-really-bought-24|url-status=dead|journal=Mental Floss|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212095456/https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12657/was-manhattan-really-bought-24|archive-date=February 12, 2020|access-date=May 11, 2020}}</ref><ref name="YongRao1995">{{cite book|author1=Mun Cheong Yong|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZdZo5Ui8oS4C&pg=PA3|title=Singapore-India Relations: A Primer|author2=V. V. Bhanoji Rao|publisher=NUS Press|year=1995|isbn=978-9971-69-195-0|page=3}}</ref>
-In the [[United States]] in the early 19th century trading posts used by [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]]s were licensed by the federal government and called "[[Factory (fur trade)|factories]]".  Tribes were to concede substantial territory to the United States in order to access the "factories" as happened at [[Fort Osage|Fort Clark]] in the [[Treaty of Fort Clark]] in which the [[Osage Nation]] conceded most of [[Missouri]] in order to access the trading post!
+The [[Edmonton|City of Edmonton]], Alberta began as [[Fort Edmonton]] in 1812.<ref>Edmonton House Journals, Correspondence and Reports, 1806-1821 (published by the Historical Society of Alberta), p. 182</ref>
-A 'trading post' can also be referred to as the place where securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange are traded (bought and sold).
+The [[Roman Empire]] was able to control a large amount of land because of its efficient systems for transferring information, goods, and military expeditions across large distances. Goods specifically were vital to maintaining outposts in territories distant from Rome, such as northern Africa and western Asia. Trading posts played a large part in managing these goods, deciding where they were going and when. Goods collected at these trading posts and other parts of the Roman trade system included precious stones, [[fabrics]], [[ivory]], and [[wine]]. There is also evidence that [[cattle]] were traded at the Empúries trading post, established in the 6th century BCE, on the Iberian Peninsula.<ref>Colominas, L., and Edwards, C. J. (2017) Livestock Trade during the Early Roman Period: First Clues from the Trading Post of Empúries (Catalonia). ''Int. J. Osteoarchaeol.'', 27: 167– 179. {{doi|10.1002/oa.2527}}</ref>
-[[Category:Commerce]]
+==North American frontier==
-{{trade-stub}}
+{{Main|Native American trade}}
+Trading houses were typically strategically located and stocked with goods that [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] and other trappers would trade furs for. These goods included clothing, blankets, axes, beads, corn, wheat flour, and liquor. Eric Jay Dolin's ''Fur, Fortune, and Empire'' provides a history of trading posts in North America.
-[[cs:Faktorie]]
-[[fr:Comptoir]]
+Plymouth colonists established Kennebec Trading House in 1628.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dolin|first=Eric Jay|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/449865266|title=Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America|date=2010|publisher=W. W. Norton & Co|isbn=978-0-393-06710-1|location=New York|page=55|oclc=449865266}}</ref> This was followed by the Plymouth Penobscot trading post. Conflicts between French and Plymouth colonists occurred in 1631 when Frenchmen arrived at the Plymouth Penobscot trading post. The masters of the trading post and most of the crew were absent, leaving only a few servants (employees) to attend to the Frenchmen. When the Frenchmen learned this was the case, they feigned interest in guns available at the trading post, which when they got their hands on them, they turned back onto the servants. They obtained all valuables, leaving with £500 of goods and £300 in beaver pelts.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dolin|first=Eric Jay|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/449865266|title=Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America|date=2010|publisher=W. W. Norton & Co|isbn=978-0-393-06710-1|location=New York|page=62|oclc=449865266}}</ref>
-[[he:פייטוריה]]
-[[nl:Handelspost]]
+John Jacob Astor founded the [[American Fur Company]] (AFC). One of the great feats achieved by the AFC was the establishment of a trading post in the native Blackfoot tribe's territory, located in modern-day Montana along the Rocky Mountains. The Blackfoot tribe had killed many Euro-Americans and, up to this point, had only traded with the Hudson Bay Company. In order to erect a trading post in Blackfoot territory, the AFC needed a way to establish contact on their behalf. Jacob Berger, a trapper, offered Kenneth McKenzie to serve as this contact and get the AFC into negotiations with the Blackfoot. The talks were successful, and McKenzie was allowed to build a trading post in Blackfoot territory, adjacent to the Missouri and Marias Rivers, naming it Fort McKenzie.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dolin|first=Eric Jay|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/449865266|title=Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America|date=2010|publisher=W. W. Norton & Co|isbn=978-0-393-06710-1|location=New York|page=272|oclc=449865266}}</ref>
-[[pl:Faktoria]]
-[[pt:Feitorias portuguesas]]
+The American post, Noochuloghoyet Trading Post, was established in the last 19th century in central Alaska adjacent to the Yukon River. This was an important trading post for the fur trade. It operated under different names, and its level of business activity varied greatly while it was in operation.<ref>Turck, Thomas J., and Diane L. Lehman Turck. "Trading Posts along the Yukon River: Noochuloghoyet Trading Post in Historical Context." ''Arctic'', vol. 45, no. 1, 1992, pp. 51–61. ''JSTOR'', {{JSTOR|40511192}}. Accessed 25 Mar. 2023.</ref>
-[[ru:Торговый пост]]
-[[simple:Trading post]]
+==Other uses==
+* In the context of [[scouting]], trading post usually refers to a camp store in which snacks, craft materials, and general merchandise are sold.<ref>[https://norfolkscoutshop.co.uk/ Norfolk Scout Shop], accessed 10 February 2022</ref> "Trading posts" also refers to a cub scout activity in which cub teams (or individuals) undertake challenge activities in exchange for points.<ref>Online Scout Manager, [https://www.onlinescoutmanager.co.uk/programme.php?action=view&id=49668 Trading Post - Cubs], accessed 10 February 2022</ref>
+* A "trading post" also once referred to a trading booth within the [[New York Stock Exchange]].<ref>New York Institute of Finance,  [https://www.nyif.com/dictionary/t/term/tradingpost Trading post], accessed 10 February 2022</ref>
+==Trading posts in North America==
+* [[Fort Vancouver]]
+* [[Fort Edmonton]]
+* [[Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site]]
+* [[Fort Michilimackinac]]
+* [[Fort William, Ontario]]
+* [[Tadoussac]]
+==See also==
+* [[Commerce]]
+* [[Entrepôt]]
+* [[Factory (trading post)]]
+* [[Fur trade]]
+* [[Karum (trade post)]]
+* [[Navajo trading posts]]
+* [[Panton, Leslie & Company]]
+* [[Trading Post (newspaper)|''Trading Post'' (newspaper)]]
+* [[United States Government Fur Trade Factory System]]
+==References==
+{{Reflist}}
+==External links==
+* {{Commonscatinline|Trading posts}}
+{{Authority control}}
+{{DEFAULTSORT:Trading Post}}
+[[Category:Trading posts| ]]
+[[Category:Western (genre) staples and terminology]].