Arlington, Massachusetts
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Arlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The town is six miles northwest of Boston, and its population was 46,308 at the 2020 census.
Arlington Town Hall
Robbins Farm Park
Patriots' Grave in the Old Burying Ground
The Jason Russell House.
Samuel Wilson
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Samuel Wilson was an American meat packer who lived in Troy, New York, whose name is purportedly the source of the personification of the United States known as "Uncle Sam".
Arlington, Massachusetts
…The Prince Hall Mystic Cemetery, the only black Freemason Cemetery in the country. The Uncle Sam Memorial Statue commemorates native son Samuel Wilson, who was perhaps the original Uncle Sam. The Water tower at Park Circle is an exact copy of the rotunda of the ancient Greek Arsinoeon of the Samothrace…
Wilson c. 1850s.
Wilson's grave in Troy, New York
Uncle Sam Memorial Statue, Arlington, Massachusetts
Uncle Sam statue detail