HOME | DD

Trading Post — Description
A trading post (or as frequently a trading fort in colonial contexts or circumstances) is a place or establishment where the trading of goods takes place. The preferred travel route to a trading post or between trading posts, is known as a trade route.
Trading posts were also places for people to meet and exchange the news of the world or simply the news from their home country (many of the world's trading posts were located in places which were popular destinations for emigration) in a time when not even newspapers existed.