Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Black Hills
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| The world's largest sculpted historical monument. Mount Rushmore National Memorial has been carved in the granite escarpment of majestic Mount Rushmore, one of the highest points between the Atlantic and the Rockies. It is located in Custer State Park and Keystone, South Dakota. Colossal sculptures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, scaled to the size of men 465 feet high from crown to chin comprise this gigantic and inspiring monument to America's ideals of liberty and human happiness. Gutzon Borglum, original designer and sculptor, died in March, 1941, and the work was completed by his son Lincoln. |
