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John Jacob Astor forms the American Fur Company, headquartered in New York City. It operates fur-trading posts on the Rainy River, at Grand Portage, and at Grand Marais, as well as on Moose, Basswood, Vermillion, and Little Vermillion Lakes. The company would exist until 1842.
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