trading post

Tourists come to see the old-fashioned facades — a motel, a saloon, a trading post.

The island is a Unesco world heritage site for its colonial architecture and rich history as a trading post.

From its Alaska Native beginnings, mushing’s tradition evolved in the early 1800s when arriving Russian settlers were interested in acquiring dogs for winter transport, including moving supplies between trading posts.

They worked in town or on farms near this small tobacco trading post set among the rolling hills beside the James River.

When the Dutch set up a trading post at Cape Town in 1652, they brought artisans, slaves and farmers from their colonies in Asia, many of whom were Muslim.