Henry Knox Trail Marker at Great Barrington, MA (MA-3)
Intersection of Route 23 and Route 7
Great Barrington, MA 01230
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.
The marker is located in a small park at the intersection of Massachusetts Route 23 and U.S. 7, on the left when traveling east on Massachusetts Route 23.
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