Commemorating Henry Knox and the 'Noble Train of Artillery' in the Automobile Age
Sat, Feb 28
|Russell Public Library
Guest speakers Dennis Picard and Ben Haley will share the story of General Knox's 300 mile trek from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester Heights on Feb 28 from 2-4 pm. Register by Feb 26. Click below for more details.
Time & Location
Feb 28, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Russell Public Library, 162 Main St, Russell, MA 01071, USA
Guests
About the Event
2025, marked the 250th anniversary of the beginning of Henry Knox’s expedition to bring captured artillery from Fort Ticonderoga to Cambridge.
The approximately two-month, 300-mile endeavor by 25-year-old Knox is now a fairly well-known story, but was obscure until the early 20th century. In April 1925, the Massachusetts Legislature established a three-person commission to find and mark the route. The 1920s marker project generated the interest in Knox’s expedition that remains to this day. What remains unknown to many is that the markers are not necessarily along the route Knox took, nor were they intended to be. Guest speaker Ben Haley will share this story through the rich correspondence surviving in the collection of the Knox Commission at the Massachusetts State Library. This collection was largely ignored even while interest in finding the “real” Knox Trail has accelerated since the 1960s as a result of the 1920s marker project. The library program…