Henry Knox Trail Marker at Claverhack, NY (NY-28)

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 Ghent, New York, at the intersection of Harlemville Road and Taconic State Parkway (New York State Route 987G), on the left when traveling south on Harlemville Road. It was originally near the Brick Church in Claverack but relocated to its present location in the 1970s when research revealed a southeasterly route from Claverack.

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