In 1926, New York State Historian Alexander C. Flick recommended to the State’s Advisory Board on Battlefields and Historic Sites, created earlier in the 1920s to oversee the marking and potential acquisition of historic sites, particularly those related to the American Revolution, that the historic route of Henry Knox‘s “Noble Train of Artillery” be marked for the public.
A series of stone monuments with bronze plaques were planned by a committee from New York and Massachusetts to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Knox’s expedition. The project – dubbed the Henry Knox Trail – was one of the earliest heritage trails in the United States. [Read more…] about From Crown Point to Boston: The 1920s Henry Knox Trail
The Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance and the Warren County Commission on the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution will welcome historian-author Phillip Hamilton for a presentation, “The General has Orderer’d Me to go to the West Ward”: Henry & Lucy Knox and the Ticonderoga Expedition, on Saturday, January 13 in the Lake George Junior-Senior High School Auditorium beginning at 11 am. 
