Henry Knox Trail Marker at Stonebridge Rd., Wayland, MA (MA-22)
At intersection of Cochituate Road and Old Connecticut Path (on peninsula between roads)
Wayland, MA 01778
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.
This small stone marker, while made from the same stone, differs from others in New York and Massachusetts. This site preserves the old stone bridge that was the original point where Knox and the train of artillery crossed the Sudbury River in the winter of 1775-76. It does not contain the bronze bas-relief seen on the other markers.
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