Henry Knox Trail Marker at Fort Edward, NY (NY-11)

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.

The marker is at the intersection of Broadway (U.S. 4) and Case Street, on the left when traveling south on Broadway in front of the Fort Edward High School. Another marker is located along the west side of State Route 4 at Lock Road, north of the Northumberland bridge and south of Fort Edward on a triangle of land within the intersection at the Fort Miller Wesleyan Church. It was here that Knox was able to secure a sleigh from Judge Dewer to proceed to Stillwater.

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