How to Use trading post in a Sentence

trading post

noun
  • His trading post and homestead at the mouth of the river were the seed from which our great city grew.
    — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 2021-05-14
  • False fronts loom: saloon and blacksmith, trading post and bank and hotel.
    — New York Times, 2020-04-07
  • Laying hens come and go from a repurposed school bus and the ranch’s trading post sells fresh eggs.
    — Dina Mishev, Washington Post, 2019-07-10
  • Through the years, the Desert Inn has been a trading post, gas station, and dance hall.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2019-12-23
  • At Desert View, the trading post, market and gas station are open.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2021-12-17
  • It is believed to have come from an early trading post there and is around 200 years old.
    — Scott Horner, USA TODAY, 2021-10-17
  • Tourists come to see the old-fashioned facades — a motel, a saloon, a trading post.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 2024-09-11
  • Historians tell the tale of bandits being hanged near a trading post on the site.
    — Rosemary McClure, latimes.com, 2019-06-30
  • Then there were the muted gains in share price made on the first day of trading post-IPO.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 2019-11-13
  • Berenice at the time was an important port and trading post between Egypt and other parts of the world.
    — Fox News, 2021-03-10
  • Yes, Fort Bridger was a real fur trading post in the 1850s.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 2025-01-11
  • The state heritage site, in John Day, was opened as a trading post in the 1865.
    — oregonlive, 2021-06-03
  • But the building itself is even older and was first built as a log cabin trading post in 1826.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2021-11-12
  • The nephew of the market's developer, a small boy and a singing barber are other spirits said to roam the trading post.
    — Christine Clarridge, Axios, 2024-10-16
  • For centuries, the river has been a trading post, a border, and a nexus of nomadic activity.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2023-03-06
  • Standing on the shore is the Smallwood Store, a trading post opened in 1906.
    — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 2025-03-17
  • One such camp became a trading post and later the village now known as Russian Mission.
    — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 2019-10-24
  • Nowhere more than the gallery dedicated to her memory, on the spot where the Johnson trading post once stood.
    — Jennifer Brooks, Star Tribune, 2021-04-16
  • Mitchell stole the woman's car and later robbed a trading post in Red Valley, Arizona.
    — CBS News, 2019-07-26
  • The slogan comes from the time when there was a trading post in what is now Riverside Park along Highway 51.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 2022-07-08
  • This nest was collected in the mid-1800s through British and Dutch trading posts in the region.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-09-16
  • Barbara Burget built a trading post near the White River in an area north of 96th Street.
    — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 2022-01-31
  • In the 1870s a Viking trading post was discovered on the Swedish island of Björkö.
    — Caroline Moorehead, WSJ, 2023-10-13
  • In 1843, Bridger built a trading post in what is now Wyoming as a stop for people migrating West.
    — Emily Blackwood, People.com, 2025-01-13
  • The wagon train is off from Doan’s Crossing, the final main trading post for at least a few months of travel, and into the wild west—bandits, war tribes, the works.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 2022-02-06
  • In 1875, a trading post and buffalo hunter camp sprang up near Fort Elliott, one of Texas’ last frontier forts.
    — Kristi Eaton, Chron, 2021-11-12
  • New York had grown in fits and starts from a 17 th-century Dutch trading post at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan.
    — Nancie Clare, Los Angeles Magazine, 2018-02-20
  • The trading post was having its best month ever in March 2020 when the Navajo Nation ordered a shutdown.
    — USA Today, 2021-05-29
  • Gaming the system The Portuguese first came to Macau in 1557 to set up a colonial trading post largely to deal in silks and silver.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 2020-01-20
  • With the disappearance of the reindeer herds in the 1930s and the subsequent closing of the trading post, the last Eskimos moved out from the Kuzitrin Basin to the coast.
    — Tom Kizzia, Anchorage Daily News, 2021-11-13

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