Henry Knox Trail Marker at Glens Falls, NY (NY-9)
YMCA Park
Glenn Street (U.S. 9) at Fort Amherst Road
YMCA Park
Glens Falls, NY 12801
United States
The Henry Knox Trail, also known as the Knox Cannon Trail, is a network of roads and paths that traces the route of Colonel Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" from Crown Point, New York, to the Continental Army camp outside Boston, Massachusetts, in the American Revolutionary War.
George Washington commanded Henry Knox in 1775 to transport 59 cannons (weighing over 60 tons) 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 against British forces. They included forty-three heavy brass and iron cannons, six coehorns, eight mortars, and two howitzers. During December 1775, Knox was in this vicinity while he continued to search for sleds and teams to drag the cannon south from Lake George to Albany.
The marker is in Glens Falls, New York, in Warren County. It is in Crandall Park at the intersection of Glen Street (U.S. 9) and Ft. Amherst Road, on the right when traveling south on Glen Street at the northern border of Glens Falls.
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