Henry Knox Trail Marker at Albany, NY (NY-22)

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 Empire State Trail and Quay Street, on the right when traveling south on Empire State Trail behind the Jennings Landing Ampitheater. This spot marks where the cannons were sent over the Hudson River on the ice to the east shore, to begin their southeasterly course toward Massachusetts. On January 8, 1776, Knox notes that one of the lost guns from the previous night was recovered and that most of the sleds got over the ice from Albany. Marker is not accesible by car.

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