History
Snake River Trading Post is a reconstructed North West Company fur trade outpost on the Snake River west of Pine City, Minnesota, established in the fall of 1804 by John Sayer and his voyageurs as part of the company’s inland network expanding west from Grand Portage. Typical of a wintering post, it supported trade in goods for hides and pelts gathered through labor shared among Dakota and Ojibwe communities, with women often controlling sales of finished hides. After the original post was destroyed by fire, artifacts rediscovered in 1931 led to archaeological work in the 1960s that recovered hundreds of objects, enabling an unusually accurate reconstruction and preservation as a historic site.
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