The city was named for Bill Osborne, who established a trading post here.
Dutch sailors had first discovered this place and called it "Kievet's Hook" from the cry of the birds (pee-wees) whom they heard there.The Dutch themselves intended to establish a trading-post here, but they were driven away by the arrival of the English....
The story of Fort Shirley cannot be told without elaborating on the life of its "high profile" founder, George Croghan, who likely had his eye on this land as early as 1747 during his expeditions as a trader.He built a house and trading post here in 1753 after moving from the Cumberland Valley....
In 1663 the city came under the authority of the Dutch.The Dutch built a trading post here in 1680.The city came under British authority twice, the first time from 1781 to 1784 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and again from 1795 to 1819 during the Napoleonic Wars....
The Roman road from Bath to Badbury Rings passes through the east of the parish.The situation of the village is similar to Romano-British sites in the area, and there may have been a Roman military camp and trading post here....
Machiasport is a historic seaport and tourist destination.In 1633, the Plymouth Company established a trading post here to conduct business with the Native Americans.But this was part of Acadia, territory which New France considered its own....
Gaines established an Indian trading post here in 1809.The exact date for the founding of the town is unclear....
Bertrand is an unincorporated community in the southern part of the township at on the St. Joseph River approximately south of Niles.Joseph Bertrand, a French Canadian, had a trading post here by 1812.He had married the daughter of a Potawatomi chief and through her had acquired land....
Here, the Five Civilized Tribes, many of the Plains Indians and the Osage met and signed the treaty of Camp Holmes, pledging peace and friendship among themselves and the United States.Later, Auguste P. Chouteau established a trading post here and renamed the place Camp Mason....
Navajos had settled in this area as early as 1630.The Hubbell family had a trading post here between 1880 and1882....
The Dutch were the first to open trade between Europe and Ada in the 16th century and built a new trading post here in 1775.Later, the Danes took over, who at this time had power over the whole coast east of Accra....
Whitmore Knaggs established a trading post here in 1820 to exchange goods for furs with the local Ojibwe.
The city was named for Lieutenant Lancaster Lupton, who built a trading post here on the Adobe Creek in 1840.
Massett is the principal village of the Hyda nation, now containing a population of about three hundred and fifty Indians, 40 occupied houses, 50 carved poles, and the ruins of many ancient lodges.The Hudson Bay Company have had a Trading Post here since 1855, Mr. Alexander McKenzie having been their agent for the last six years.He is the extreme north-western resident white man on the soil of the Dominion of Canada....
In the first half of the 14th century German settlers acquired the Elbe meadows between Rathmannsdorf and Postelwitz from the feudal estate of Hohnstein and founded a trading post here.Schandau was first mentioned in the records in 1445 and was given, in effect, the status of a town as a result of its important location as a trading site on the Elbe in 1467 by a council constitution....
Several mixed white and Cherokee families also lived in or near the present site of Little Town, likely just east of the village in the Cherokee Neutral Lands or to the south, near Chetopa.One family of mixed Osage blood that lived at Little Town before the Civil War was the John Allan Mathews family, who operated a blacksmith/gunsmith shop on the site and ran a trading post here, as well as one at Osage Mission and one at Fort Gibson.Mathews first purchased the trading post at Little Town from Augustus Chouteau in either 1838 or 1843, depending upon the source....
He is believed to have landed at Red Banks, near the site of the modern-day city of Green Bay, Wisconsin.Nicolet founded a small trading post here in 1634, originally named La Baye or La Baie des Puants (French for "the stinking Bay").From this, Green Bay claims to be one of the oldest European permanent settlements in America, but a 1671 Jesuit mission was the first true European outpost....
