Henry Knox Trail Marker at Hillsdale, NY (NY-30/MA-1)

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 Hillsdale, New York, in Columbia County. It is on New York State Route 71, on the right when traveling south, and is located at the New York/Massachusetts border. The borderline monument is a joint creation between New York and Massachusetts. This is the only monument on the Gen. Henry Knox Trail that contains designs from both the state of New York and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Knox passed through here in mid-January 1776.

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