Fort Crailo
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Supposed to be the oldest building in the United States and to have been erected in 1642 as a Manor House and place of defense, known as Fort Cralo. General Abercrombie's Headquarters while marching to attack Fort Ticonderoga in 1758 where it is said at the Cantonment east of this house near the old mill, the army surgeon R. Shuckburg composed the popular song of Yankee Doodle |