Henry Knox Trail Marker at Cohoes, NY (NY-19)

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 New Loudon Road (New York State Route 9) intersection and Arrowhead Lane, on the right when traveling south on New Loudon Road. The Knox Marker was initially located at School 16, on the west side of State Route 9 between Latham and Crescent (Albany County), now located on the west side of State Route 9 about two miles south of the Mohawk River.

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