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 top of the marker contains a bas-relief bronze plaque depicting Gen. Knox overseeing a train of ox-drawn sleds. The marker was initially located on Edgell Road at the town common. February 1776 is the first record of some of the artillery being deployed to the Boston area from their hiding place in Framingham.
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Framingham, MA 01702
Wayland, MA 01778
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Way, MA 01778
Marlborough, MA 01752
Weston, MA 02493
Northborough, MA 01532
Waltham, MA 02453
Lincoln, MA 01773
Concord, MA 01742
Shrewsbury, MA 01545
Watertown, MA 02472
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Roxbury, MA 02119
Worcester, MA 01609
Boston, MA 02127