December 9, 2025
Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance News Advisory
As the region prepares for a series of events on December 12 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the heroic “Noble Artillery Train” led by Colonel Henry Knox from Ticonderoga to Boston, Warren County and municipal officials are taking time on Tuesday, December 9 to call public attention to the Knox memorials in their communities and recall the sacrifices that eventually produced America’s independence. These events are presented by the Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance and the Warren County Commission for the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution.
Warren County is home to five of the 59 bronze plaques embedded in granite that were placed, beginning in 1926, along the path in upstate New York and Massachusetts taken by Knox and his teamsters to move 60 tons of artillery to General George
Washington. This weaponry was the key factor in the Continental Army’s causing British troops to abandon Boston in March 1776, never to return.
The Warren County commemorations on December 9 are scheduled at four of the monument sites as follows, with expected participants listed:
• 10 AM, Lake George Battlefield Park, Fort George Road: Town Supervisor Vinnie Crocitto, Jr., Mayor Ray Perry, municipal Historian Margy Mannix, NY State DAR Custodian Heather Mabee, County Historian Stan Cianfarano, County 250 Commission Chair John Berry
• 11 AM, Route 9 in Queensbury just north of Crandall Park: Queensbury Supervisor John Strough, Glens Falls Mayor Bill Collins, Glens Falls City Historian Wayne Wright, Jane McCrea DAR Chapter Regent Mary Jane Sotanski, County Historian Stan Cianfarano, County 250 Commission Chair & Queensbury Town Historian John Berry
• Noon, Town pier/beach at Bolton Landing: Bolton Town Supervisor Ron Conover, Town Historian Ted Caldwell, County Historian Stan Cianfarano, County 250 Commission Chair John Berry
• 1 PM, 44 Sabbath Day Point Road, Silver Bay (private property--photos with permission from homeowner): Hague Town Supervisor Joshua Patchett, Town Historian Sally DeLarm, County Historian Stan Cianfarano, County 250 Commission Chair John Berry