About this city
Also known as: The Home of Uncle Sam
Mason is an exceptionally pristine, culturally historic rural township positioned flatly within the rolling granite hills and dense maple forests of southernmost New Hampshire, right along the Massachusetts border. Chartered painstakingly in 1749 and renamed in 1768 to honor Captain John Mason, the original colonial founder of New Hampshire, the community has fiercely protected its rural agrarian lifestyle for nearly three centuries. Mason holds an immortalized position in global folklore and American history as the childhood hometown of Samuel Wilson, the real-world meat inspector who became the iconic national symbol known worldwide as 'Uncle Sam.'
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Suggested stay: 1 day
Photograph the pristine historic 1700s timber frame rooms at the childhood Uncle Sam House, pick fresh heirloom apples and pet sheep at local heritage farms, and hike along the peaceful Mason Rail Trail.
