- The fourth and final President, Abraham Lincoln, was chosen for his part in abolishing slavery in the United States. Mount Rushmore took 14 years to sculpt.
- Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has captured the imaginations of millions since opening in 1941. Here are 75 facts that may surprise you.
- Mount Rushmore is a project of colossal proportion, colossal ambition and colossal achievement. It involved the efforts of nearly 400 men and women.
- About 3 million visitors come to view Mount Rushmore—located in the Black Hills of Keystone, South Dakota—each year.
- As a joke, someone started calling Six Grandfathers Mountain, Mount Rushmore, and the name stuck.
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- Some 400 workers removed around 450,000 tons of rock from Mount Rushmore, which still remains in a heap near the base of the mountain.
- Before it became known as Mount Rushmore, the Lakota called this granite formation Tunkasila Sakpe Paha, or Six Grandfathers Mountain.
- Led by the sculptor Gutzon Borglum along with his son Lincoln, work on the Mount Rushmore project began in 1927 and was finally completed in 1941.
- The Black Hills, where Mount Rushmore was constructed were, and still are, considered sacred by the Lakota Sioux, the tribe native to the region.