Henry Knox Trail Marker at Ticonderoga (Lake George) NY (NY-4)

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.

Originally located at a private marina, but refurbished and relocated to the Mossy Point Boat Launch on  Lake George. Knox assembled a flotilla to transport the guns down the lake at the Lake George Landing. The marker is located at the intersection of Black Point Road and Mossy Point Road, on the right when traveling south on Black Point Road. 

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