What is the history of Mount Rushmore?

Answer by  flasker (120)

Mount Rushmore is an enormous granite sculpture near Keystone, South Dakota. It features the heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. It was designed as a tourist attraction for South Dakota. Construction lasted from 1927, and ended in 1941.

Answer by  sususu (866)

Mount Rushmore was conceived in order to encourage tourism in South Dakota. In 1925 sculptor Gutzon Borglum decided to carve George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. Theodore Roosevelt was suggested by President Coolidge. Mount Rushmore, along with the Hall of Records, was sculpted from 1927 to 1941 by hundreds of workers, when Borglum died.