Henry Knox Trail Marker at Albany, NY (NY-21)

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.

Now located on Northern Boulevard, on the right when traveling south. The Gen. Henry Knox Marker was originally at this intersection but has been relocated to the edge of the highway expansion area. This location marks where the old road south from Claus's Ferry would turn to enter the City of Albany. The train of artillery that crossed at Claus's Ferry would have passed along this route in the first week of January 1776.

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