Historic Site

Henry Knox Trail Ft. Ticonderoga Marker at Ticonderoga NY (NY-1)

Ticonderoga, NY

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 Ticonderoga, New York, in Essex County. It can be reached from Sandy Redoubt, on the right when traveling east. The marker is on the parade ground of Fort Ticonderoga, near the south parapet wall. 

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