Henry Knox Trail Marker at Hillsdale, NY (NY-29)

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.

This marker is one of two located in Hillsdale. The other is at the Massachusetts border. The monument is situated on a triangle of land east of the intersection of New York Routes 22 and 71. Knox passed through this route in the second week of January 1776. 

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