Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore is a mountain situated in the Black Hills in South Dakota, USA. The rock has been carved faces of four American presidents who have distinguished themselves in U.S.A. history: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, TheodoreRoosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

The idea of the temple of democracy came up with a local historian and publicist - Doane Robinson. The project was to attract tourists monument in the Black Hills mountains. In 1924, Doane Robinson, interested in his idea of ​​a sculptor Borglum Gutzona.


Gutzon Borglum and his team of several hundred local workers, miners and sculptors began work in 1927. Monument was created with the help of explosives, hammers and heavy equipment.

Borglum originally intended to carve the presidents up to the waist, ultimately we have only their busts. Each has a height of 18.3meters, and the whole is visible from a distance of 100 kilometers. Presidents of the head uncovered, respectively, in 1930 Washington, in 1936 Jefferson, Lincoln in 1937, Roosevelt in 1939.