Henry Knox Trail Marker at Waterford, NY (NY-18)

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 Broad Street (New York State Route 4) and 1st Street, on the right when traveling east on Broad Street. The Gen. Henry Knox Trail Marker is shown in the Town of Waterford Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Park. This marker indicates the ford where Knox crossed to the east side of the Hudson on his way to Albany.

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