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The trading post became the vehicle both for the Navajo obtaining the goods they needed and a market for the products they wished to sell. [5] [6] A sutler at Fort Defiance, Arizona began trading with the Navajo in 1851, but Fort Defiance closed in 1868 and the era of privately owned trading posts began. [7]
Houghton: August 6, 2006: Big Traverse Bay Historic District† East of Lake Linden at mouth of Traverse River: Lake Linden vicinity February 21, 1975: The Birth of Professional Hockey: 700 E Lakeshore Dr. Houghton: August 6, 2006: Joseph Bosch Building† 302 Calumet Avenue Lake Linden: January 13, 1982: Joseph Bosch House Demolished 334 Hecla ...
The Shelden Avenue Historic District is a commercial historic district located along Shelden, Lake, & Montezuma Avenues in Houghton, Michigan.The district contains 43 contributing buildings (including the Douglass House and the Shelden-Dee Block, both separately listed) [2] in an area of 22 acres. [1]
Established on August 28, 1965, Hubbell Trading Post encompasses about 65 hectares (160 acres) and preserves the oldest continuously operated trading post on the Navajo Nation. [4] From the late 1860s through the 1960s, the local trading post was the main financial and commercial hub for many Navajo people, functioning as a bank (where they ...
The nearest trading post was some 50 mi (80 km) away and Keam's trading post was 13 mi (21 km) east of the Hopi Indian's settlements on First Mesa. With the opportunity for full year round trade nearby, the regional Indians quickly identified the canyon with the traders and the name Keams Canyon took hold.
He bought the trading site, then cut timber in the mountains and hauled it down to build a log trading post, which he stocked with supplies carted from the rail head in Gallup. His post was in the western entrance to the pass. He named it the Crystal Trading Post. During the winter months, he employed Navajo weavers to make rugs.
Houghton County, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is also named after Douglass Houghton. The name of the lake is pronounced by Michigan citizens as "HOTE'n" (/ˈhoʊʔn̩/). The lake receives the waters of spring-fed Higgins Lake through the Cut River and, in turn, is the headwaters for the Muskegon River , which flows out of the North Bay in ...
John Bradford Moore (1855–1926) [1] was a trader who established a post at Crystal, New Mexico, at the western end of the Narbona Pass, where he developed the manufacture of Navajo blankets for sale in the United States.