How to Use trading post in a Sentence

trading post

noun
  • The French set up a trading post on the coast.
  • The town was first established as a trading post.
  • His trading post and homestead at the mouth of the river were the seed from which our great city grew.
    — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2021
  • Through the years, the Desert Inn has been a trading post, gas station, and dance hall.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Panama has long been seen more as a trading post than a destination.
    — John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The burial site was once home to a medieval trading post with Ireland.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2021
  • At Desert View, the trading post, market and gas station are open.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2021
  • It is believed to have come from an early trading post there and is around 200 years old.
    — Scott Horner, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Tourists come to see the old-fashioned facades — a motel, a saloon, a trading post.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The royal coach stop was a trading post for goods as well as a place where horses were kept and could be rented or changed out.
    — Debbi Kickham, Forbes, 30 May 2021
  • At a trading post, kids and adults bartered for jewelry, stones, glass pipes and Snickers.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
  • Historians tell the tale of bandits being hanged near a trading post on the site.
    — Rosemary McClure, latimes.com, 30 June 2019
  • There was a school, a trading post and a gas station nearby, but everything else seemed distant.
    — Roman Stubbs, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
  • Berenice at the time was an important port and trading post between Egypt and other parts of the world.
    — Fox News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • There was already a small stone house there that had served as a trading post early in the 18th century.
    — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2020
  • The state heritage site, in John Day, was opened as a trading post in the 1865.
    — oregonlive, 3 June 2021
  • An Inuit and his family visit a trading post, spear fish, catch a walrus, and build an igloo.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
  • But the building itself is even older and was first built as a log cabin trading post in 1826.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2021
  • 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, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Emporia, settled in 1857 as a trading post, once was a busy railroad hub.
    — Ruth Simon, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Standing on the shore is the Smallwood Store, a trading post opened in 1906.
    — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2025
  • One such camp became a trading post and later the village now known as Russian Mission.
    — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Nowhere more than the gallery dedicated to her memory, on the spot where the Johnson trading post once stood.
    — Jennifer Brooks, Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The scene outside the Kittery trading post was modest and wholesome, with a sheen of timelessness.
    — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Mitchell stole the woman's car and later robbed a trading post in Red Valley, Arizona.
    — CBS News, 26 July 2019
  • 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, 8 July 2022
  • This nest was collected in the mid-1800s through British and Dutch trading posts in the region.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Barbara Burget built a trading post near the White River in an area north of 96th Street.
    — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2022
  • In the 1870s a Viking trading post was discovered on the Swedish island of Björkö.
    — Caroline Moorehead, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
  • In 1843, Bridger built a trading post in what is now Wyoming as a stop for people migrating West.
    — Emily Blackwood, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025

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