Celebrate Knox250!  ‘The Knox Trail’ documentary
was presented by the Otis Historical Commission and Otis Preservation in collaboration with Monterey Historical Society, a 12-minute documentary video tracing the famous route at the Monterey Public Library.

The producers of the film, Jessica Provenz and Joshua Briggs alongside local historian Tom Ragusa and Rob Hoogs of Monterey Historical gave an accounting of this part of the Great Road for a standing room only crowd.

Knox was commissioned by the Continental Army commander George Washington in 1775 to transport 59 cannons from captured forts on Lake Champlain to the army camp outside Boston. Knox used sledges pulled by teams of oxen to haul the cannons, many weighing over a ton, crossing an icy Lake George in mid-winter. He traveled through rural New York and the snow covered Berkshire hill towns including Monterey and Otis, finally arriving to the aid of the Continental Army in January 1776.
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