Our Master Plan Explained
The Knox Trail Pocket Park
In what remains one of the most dramatic strategic moves of the Revolutionary War, General Henry Knox dragged an assemblage of cannons overland from Fort Ticonderoga to the heights overlooking the British-occupied city of Boston. Delivery of this artillery to General Washington forced the British evacuation of the city the next spring, resulting in one of the early victories for the American Army.
Knox's "train of artillery' was in part carried over today's New York State Rt. 4 through Northumberland to the village of Schuylerville. In 1926 56 granite and bronze monuments were erected to mark the 290 mile Heritage Trail between Ft Edward and Boston. Three monuments in close proximity to Hudson Crossing Park are at Knox Trail Pocket Park at the foot of Stark's Knob Road, another at the south end of Schuylerville, the third just 10 miles to the south, in Bemis Heights.
The Knox Trail Pocket Park, with convenient parking and just a short walk from Stark's Knob, provides picnic tables and interpretive signs. The Turning Point at Olde Saratoga Rotary Club has adopted this Hudson Crossing Pocket Park, helping to care for flower beds and landscaping.
A trio of flags and split rail fencing on the corner of N.Y.S. Route 4 and Stark's Knob Road beckons travelers to pause for a few moments to check out this historic site. For more about this trail, go to http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/srv/KnoxTrail/index.html