Henry Knox Trail Marker at Schuylerville, NY (NY-12)

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 in Schuylerville, New York, in Saratoga County. It is at the intersection of U.S. 4 and Starks Knob Road, on the right when traveling south on U.S. 4. Knox had crossed the river and arrived at Saratoga. The marker was originally located at the west end of the Northumberland Bridge at the approximate location Knox would have crossed the river.

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