Knox’s Noble Train of Artillery Through Monterey

This is the first of two hikes hosted by the Bidwell House Museum in the Housatonic Heritage Walk series for 2025

Join Rob Hoogs from the Bidwell House Museum and Monterey Historical Society on a walk in the footsteps of Col. Henry Knox’s Noble Train of Artillery. Their winter caravan took almost 60 tons of cannons, mortars and cohorns captured from the British at Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point on Lake Champlain. They passed through Monterey on Jan. 10, 1776, on their way to Boston to present the cannons to Gen. Washington. The cannons were emplaced on Dorchester Heights and …