Description: Fort Ticonderoga: 1756, Essex County, Ticonderoga. Built by the French as Fort Carillon, and partially destroyed by them in their withdrawal of 1759. Rebuilt as Fort Ticonderoga 1759-60 by British, captured by Americans in 1775, Gen. Washington sent its cannons to lift the siege of Boston, by Gen Knox. Recaptured by British in 1777 enroute to Saratoga. Dismantled after Burgoyne's surrender. Bought by William Pell. His Great Great Grandson, Stephen Pell, began reconstruction in 1908. The Fort Ticonderoga Associationan was established in the 1930s, and continues to restore and operate the fort as a historic site.