Mason Explained

Mason may refer to:

Occupations

• Mason, brick mason, or bricklayer, a craftsman who lays bricks to construct brickwork, or who lays any combination of stones, bricks, cinder blocks, or similar pieces
• Stone mason, a craftsman in the stone-cutting and shaping industry

Organizations

• Mason (Freemasonry), a general term for a Freemason
• George Mason University in Virginia, US
  • Its athletic program, the George Mason Patriots

People

• Mason (given name)
• Mason (surname), an English, French or Italian surname
• Mason sept of Clan Sinclair
• Mason (musician) (born 1980), Dutch electronic music producer, real name Iason Chronis

Places

• Mason, Illinois
• Mason, Grant County, Kentucky
• Mason, Magoffin County, Kentucky
• Masons, Maryland
• Mason, Michigan, in Ingham County
• Mason, Houghton County, Michigan
• Mason, Nevada
• Mason, New Hampshire
• Mason, Ohio
• Mason, Oklahoma
• Mason, South Dakota
• Mason, Tennessee
• Mason, Texas
• Mason, West Virginia
• Mason (town), Wisconsin
  • Mason, Wisconsin, village within the town
• Mason City (disambiguation)
• Mason County (disambiguation)
• Mason Township (disambiguation)
• Mason, Veneto

Science and technology

• Mason (crater), on the Moon
• MASON (Java), an artificial-life computer simulation development environment
• Mason jar, a molded glass jar used in home canning to preserve food

Transport and military

• Mason (streetcar), first streetcar in the U.S.
• Mason Machine Works, Taunton, Massachusetts, known for its locomotives
• Mason Motor Car Company, a brass era car company
• Mason Truck, a subsidiary of Durant Motors of the 1920s
• USS Mason, several warships

Other uses

• Mason (American band), a rock band from Virginia
• Masons (novel), a novel by Alexey Pisemsky
• Mason bee (Osmia species), of the family Megachilidae

See also

• Masone, a town in the Alps Region of northern Italy
• Macon (disambiguation)
• Marson (disambiguation)
• Masson (disambiguation)
• Justice Mason (disambiguation)
• Mason-Dixon line
• William Mason (locomotive), currently on display at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum