Cancel anytime. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Feb. 16, 1964: This picture is believed to show the fur trading post as it was in 1814 and is from an engraving on a $10 bank note issued by the ...

Fort Union Trading Post National Historical Site recreates the trading post run by the American Fur Company for 40 years during the 1800s. Read more about Center for State of the Parks: Fort Union ...

The official date is disputed but on Feb. 14 or Feb. 15, 1764, the party arrived in the area and established the land as a fur trading post. They then began to construct the settlement named 'St ...

Other English colonists found Jamestown, Virginia. A fur-trading post is established at Cushnoc (now Augusta). Maine's first settlers, fur traders, act as go-betweens with the American Indians.