31 May 2014 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Museums, Exhibitions, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks
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Mount Rushmore during sunset © Chaitanya Polumetla/cc-by-sa-3.0
The
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near
Keystone in
South Dakota. Sculpted by Danish-American
Gutzon Borglum and his son,
Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents:
George Washington (1732–1799),
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826),
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) and
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). The entire memorial covers 1,278.45 acres (5.17 km2).
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