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Mount Rushmore by Gutzon and Lincoln Borglum

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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.

The work began in 1927 but was not finished until 1941.

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Mount Rushmore

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 (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). The entire memorial covers 1,278.45 acres (5.17 km2)[2] and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level.[3]

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