Henry Knox Trail

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Image of a marker on the Henry Knox Trail
Marker in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, the first marker added to the Henry Knox Trail since its establishment in 1926–27. The marker pictured was dedicated March 17, 2009, the 233rd anniversary of the end of the Siege of Boston, known as Evacuation Day in Massachusetts.

The Henry Knox Trail, also known as the Knox Cannon Trail, is a network of roads and paths which traces the route of Colonel Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" from Crown Point to the Continental Army camp outside Boston, Massachusetts early in the American Revolutionary War.

History

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Knox was commissioned by Continental Army commander George Washington in 1775 to transport 59 cannons from captured forts on Lake Champlain—30 from Fort Ticonderoga and 29 from Crown Point—to the army camp outside Boston to aid the war effort there against British forces.[1] They included 43 heavy brass and iron cannons, six cohorns, eight mortars, and two howitzers.[2] Knox used sledges pulled by teams of oxen to haul these cannons, many weighing over a ton, crossing an icy Lake George in mid-winter.[2] He proceeded to travel through rural New York and the snow-covered Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, finally arriving to the aid of the beleaguered Continental Army in January 1776.[2]

Marker placement

In 1926, the 150th anniversary of Knox's march, the states of New York and Massachusetts began installing commemorative plaques at 56 locations which trace the route that the expedition passed through.[3] The work was completed in 1927.[3] The New York markers' bronze reliefs were designed by Henry James Albright, and the Massachusetts reliefs by Henry L. Norton.

In 1975, the marker locations between Kinderhook, New York and Alford, Massachusetts were updated after new research confirmed theories originally advanced by North Egremont, Massachusetts postmaster Joseph Elliott, which found that Knox did not pass through Claverack, New York.[4] A new marker was added to the trail at Roxbury Heritage State Park in Boston in 2009, adjacent to a house owned by General John Thomas, who guided the weapons received from Knox to their final placement on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston.[5]

Table of Knox Trail Markers

Marker # Year installed Title Address Picture
NY-0 Crown Point 21 Grandview Dr, Crown Point, NY 12928 Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
NY-1 Fort Ticonderoga 102 Fort Ti Rd, Ticonderoga, NY 12883
NY-2 Fort Ticonderoga 102 Fort Ti Rd, Ticonderoga, NY 12883
NY-3 Fort Ticonderoga Portage Road 137 Montcalm St, Ticonderoga, NY 12883
Lake George 651 Black Point Rd, Ticonderoga, NY 12883
Sabbath Day Point 44 Sabbath Day Point Rd, Silver Bay, NY 12874
NY-6 Bolton Landing 19 Rogers Memorial Park Rd, Bolton Landing, NY 12814
NY-7 Lake George Battlefield 75 Fort George Rd, Lake George, NY 12845 (43°25'04.4"N, 73°42'25.9"W)
NY-8 Bloody Brook 1716 State Route 9, Lake George, NY 12845
NY-9 Glens Falls 626 Glen St, Queensbury, NY 12804 Glens Falls
NY-10 Hudson Falls 220 Main St, Hudson Falls, NY 12839 File:HudsonFalls.jpg
NY-11 Fort Edward 219 Broadway, Fort Edward, NY 12828 File:FortEdward.jpg
NY-12 Fort Miller 1061 State Route 4, Greenwich, NY 12834 File:FortMiller.jpg
NY-13 Northumberland 107 Starks Knob Rd, Schuylerville, NY 12871 File:KTM-Northumberland.jpg
NY-14 Schuylerville 2 Broad St, Schuylerville, NY 12871 File:Knox Trail Marker - Schuylerville NY.jpg
Ensign House 513 Saratoga County Veterans Memorial Highway, Stillwater, NY 12170
NY-15 Bemis Heights 1173 Old Route 32, Stillwater, NY 12170 File:Knox Trail Marker - Bemis Heights, Stillwater NY.jpg
NY-16 Stillwater 75 Hudson Ave, Stillwater, NY 12170 File:Knox Trail Marker Stillwater NY.jpg
NY-17 Mechanicville 6 S Main St, Mechanicville, NY 12118 File:Knox Trail Marker - Mechanicville NY.jpg
NY-18 Waterford 55 1st St, Waterford, NY 12188 File:Knox Trail Marker - Waterford NY.jpg
NY-19 Klaus' Ferry 1258 New Loudon Rd, Cohoes, NY 12047 File:Knox Trail Marker Cohoes NY.jpg
NY-20 Latham 206 Old Loudon Rd, Latham, NY 12110 File:Knox Trail Marker - Latham NY.jpg
NY-21 Albany 350 Northern Blvd, Albany, NY 12204 File:ALB-NorthernBlvd.jpg
NY-22 Albany Riverside Park 191 Broadway, Albany, NY 12202 File:ALB-Riverfront.jpg
NY-23 Rensselaer 30 Aiken Ave, Rensselaer, NY 12144 File:Rensselaer NY - Knox Trail Marker.jpg
NY-24 East Greenbush 688 Columbia Tpke, East Greenbush, NY 12061 File:Knox Trail Marker - East Greenbush NY.jpg
NY-25 Schodack 1972 Route 9, Castleton on Hudson, NY 12033 File:Knox Trail Marker Schodack, NY.jpg
NY-26 Kinderhook 1 Hudson St, Kinderhook, NY 12106

File:Knox Trail-Kinderhook-1.jpg

NY-27 West Ghent 6 Snyder Rd, Ghent, NY 12075 File:West Ghent NY - Knox Trail Marker.jpg
NY-28 Claverack 1202 Harlemville Rd, Ghent, NY 12075 File:Claverack.jpg
NY-29 Old Nobletown 40 Nobletown Rd, Hillsdale, NY 12529 File:KnoxTrailMarkerHillsdale.jpg
NY-30 / MA-1 Alford, MA MA-71

179 Green River Valley Rd.[6]

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MA-2 North Egremont, MA 223 Egremont Plain Rd. File:Knox Trail North Egremont MA.jpg
MA-3 Great Barrington, MA Intersection of Route 23 and Route 7 File:KnoxTrailMarkerGB.jpg
MA-4 Monterey, MA Route 23 File:KnoxTrailMarkerMonerey.jpg
Otis, MA Route 23 File:Otis-Knox Trail Stone.JPG
MA-5 Blandford, MA Route 23 & North Blandford Rd., Blandford, MA 01008 File:KnoxTrailMarkerBlanford.jpg
MA-6 Russell, MA Intersection of General Knox Road and South Quarter Road File:KnoxTrailMarkerRussell.jpg
MA-7 Westfield, MA Main Street at N 42° 07.252; W 072° 44.892 File:KnoxTrailMarkerWestfield.jpg
MA-8 West Springfield, MA Route 20 [7] File:KnoxTrailMarkerWestSpringfield.jpg
MA-9 Springfield, MA Boston Post Rd. (State Street) File:KnoxTrailMarkerSpringfield.jpg
MA-10 Wilbraham, MA Route 20 & Main Street File:KnoxTrailMarkerWilbraham.jpg
MA-11 Palmer, MA 1 Wilbraham Street File:General Henry Knox Trail (Palmer, Massachusetts) - DSC04689.JPG
MA-12 Warren, MA Route 67 (Main St.) at the intersection with Washington St. File:Knox Trail Marker - Warren, MA.jpg
MA-13 Brookfield, MA State Route 9 at the intersection with State Route 148 File:Knox Trail Marker - Brookfield, MA.jpg
MA-14 Spencer, MA next to 117 Main St.[8] File:KnoxTrailMarkerSpencer.jpg
MA-15 Leicester, MA 1136 Main St., in front of the Leicester Public Library and Museum

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MA-16 Worcester, MA Main Street at Lincoln Square

File:General Henry Knox monument - Worcester, MA - DSC05781.jpg

MA-17 Shrewsbury, MA Main St. at Shrewsbury Common
MA-18 Northborough, MA 63 Main Street (in front of Town Hall)

File:General Henry Knox Trail (Northborough, Massachusetts) - DSC04428.JPG

MA-19 Marlborough, MA

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MA-20 Southborough, MA 28 Main Street, Southborough, MA File:Southborough.jpg
MA-21 Framingham, MA File:Henry-Knox-trail-marker-Framingham-MA.jpg
MA-23 Wayland, MA Old Connecticut Path and Cochituate Rd. File:KnoxTrailMarkerWayland.jpg
MA-24 Weston, MA Boston Post Rd. and Town House Rd. File:KnoxTrailMarkerWeston.jpg
MA-25 Waltham, MA Route 20 (Weston St.) & Main Street File:KnoxTrailMarkerWaltham.jpg
MA-26 Watertown 481 Mt Auburn St, Watertown, MA 02472 File:Watertown Knox Trail Marker.jpg
MA-27 Cambridge 42° 22.593′ N, 71° 7.313′ W,

Corner of Garden St and Mason St in the Cambridge Commons, Cambridge, MA[9]

File:Henry Knox artillery handover to George Washington marker.jpg
MA-27.5 Roxbury, MA File:Knox Trail Roxbury MA.jpg
MA-28 South Boston

Photo gallery

References

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  7. ↑ The site is where General Reidesel and his Hessian Soldiers encamped on October 30 and 31, 1777 on their way to Boston after British General John Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga.
  8. ↑ This location is close to a marker indicating that "Washington Slept Here"
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