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Preparing the Noble Train

September 13, 2025

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“Preparing the Noble Train” is a weekend of hands-on activities and demonstrations of woodworking, iron work, tacking and shoeing horses and building a replica sledge like those used by Knox’s troops.

Event Details

  • Time:

    10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

  • Organization:

    Springfield Armory National Historic Site

  • Collaborators:

    NPS, Grand Lodge of Freemasons, City, Schools, businesses. 

  • Contact:

    Kelly Fellner, (413) 734-8551

  • More Info:

    Exhibit opening at the Armory of “The Continental Arsenal at Springfield.”

Join us for our popular bus tour with speaker and author, Jim Richmond, following the route of the 1780 Ballston Raid.

A re-enactor portraying Henry Knox will arrive at the head of Lake George on a replica bateau and be taken by a horse & cart to Fort George, where Knox actually stayed in 1775.

Washington County will host a Knox commemorative parade, beginning at Fort Edward High School, proceeding to the Old Fort House then Fort Miller. As part of the procession, wreaths will be laid at Knox markers along the route.

This immersive event at Fort Ticonderoga, retraces the first leg of Henry Knox’s legendary Noble Train of Artillery.

Historian Rick Atkinson (The Fate of the Day) will be the featured guest at a reception commemorating Knox’s Noble Artillery Train in 1775-76.

Immerse yourself in a full day of education and discovery featuring renowned authors and historians sharing insights into one of the most pivotal moments in American history at the Turning Point Symposium.

Bid farewell to Knox’s Noble Train as we handoff the ceremonial Knox250 Linstock and replica sleds to Rev250 as the Noble Train continues eastward into Massachusetts on its journey to Boston.

Join us to learn about this major turning point of the Revolutionary War, led by costumed educators from Ft. Ticonderoga, with friendly well-trained oxen and a reproduction cannon.

Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of Knox’s Noble Train along the King’s Highway. The procession will travel from Peebles Island to Van Schaick Mansion, where costumed docents will greet guests for a wreath-laying ceremony, open house, and reception featuring the New York Tapestry project.

This immersive, day-long program recreates the dramatic arrival of Henry Knox and the vital process of proofing and selecting cannon for the Continental Army.

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