Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

is an impressive sculpture of a mountain South Dakota with the faces of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. A mountain with a height of 1737 m (5700 ft) is in the Black Hills and was conceived by Doane Robinson in 1923 in an attempt to attract tourism to the South Dakota A sculptor, Gutzon Borglum was commissioned to sculpt the highest zone of Mount Rushmore would receive more sunlight. Borglum began work in 1927 creating a model from plaster, used dynamite to blow up the rock until a thin layer of granite. In 1941 and the work almost completed, Borglum died and the details of the end of the work were in charge of his son, Lincoln. The faces of four former presidents carved in rock are now an important part of the country’s history and one of the most visited sites. Hotels in South Dakota

How to get Mount Rushmore: You can get it from Rapid City.

Where is Mount Rushmore on USA Map

where is Mount Rushmore on Map of USA