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Mount Rushmore National Memorial

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Mount Rushmore
43.877031°N 103.455989°W

Mount Rushmore with (from left to right) George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.


Construction on Mount Rushmore in 1932

Mount Rushmore was sculpted from 1927 to 1941 by Gutzon Borglum and his son Lincoln out of the granite rock that makes up the mountain. The sculpture memorializes the four presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln (from left to right on the mountain).

The initial reason for creating the sculpture was to encourage South Dakota tourism. Doane Robinson proposed the idea in 1923 and persuaded Gutzon Borglum, who was renowned for The Confederate Memorial Carving on Stone Mountain in Georgia, to undertake the work once funds were raised. On March 3, 1925, Congress approved the project which began in 1927. The National Park Service officially took over the project in 1933 and it was completed in 1941, the year Borglum died. It took more than 400 laborers working steadily from 1927 to 1941 to successfully complete the work.


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Sculptures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln (left to right) represent the first 130 years of the history of the United States.

The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The tallest mountain in the region is Harney Peak (7,242 ft or 2,207 m).

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