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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.”

The regional collaboration between states, counties, and historic sites will include a “cannon relay,” handing off a replica Revolutionary era cannon from place to place on its path from Fort Ticonderoga to the high ground over Boston Harbor in the winter of 1775-1776. Saratoga County will receive the cannon approximately 1:00pm. on December 13th at Dix Bridge in Hudson Crossing Park

As part of this year’s exhibits at the fair, replica sleds handcrafted by WSWHE BOCES students will be on display alongside replica artillery.

The Bidwell House Museum will be leading a guided hike along a stretch of Knox’s journey through Monterey.

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.

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.

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

Join us for a special Knox program at Crown Point State Historic Site in partnership with War Cannon Spirits.

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.

Greenwich, NY Replica sleds built by WSWHE BOCES students will be on display with replica artillery in the farm building.

Living historians will reenact the Albany portion of Henry Knox’s Noble Wagon Train from Ticonderoga to Boston at the dawn of the American Revolution.

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