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In 1923, the Secretary of the South Dakota State Historical Society, Doane Robinson, who would come to be known as the "Father of Mount Rushmore", learned about the "Shrine to the Confederacy", a project to carve the likenesses of Confederate generals into the side of Stone Mountain, Georgia, that had been underway since 1915.
Dec 16, 2009 · Mount Rushmore, located just north of what is now Custer State Park in the Black Hills National Forest, was named for the New York lawyer Charles E. Rushmore, who traveled to the Black...
Oct 30, 2011 · A state forester led Borglum on horseback to three mountains he thought would be appropriate—Old Baldy, Sugarloaf and finally Mount Rushmore. From all accounts, it seems that Borglum fell for...
Mount Rushmore was named after Charles E. Rushmore. His letter to Doane Robinson below explains how this happened: RUSHMORE, BISBEE & STERN. 61 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. December 14, 1925.
Jul 1, 2020 · Before he was recruited to create Mount Rushmore, Mr. Borglum had been involved with another project: an enormous bas-relief at Stone Mountain in Georgia that memorialized Confederate leaders.
Jun 11, 2024 · Mount Rushmore National Memorial, colossal sculpture in the Black Hills of South Dakota, U.S. Huge representations of the heads of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, each about 60 feet (18 metres) tall, are carved in granite on the side of Mount Rushmore.
Nov 24, 2020 · South Dakota State Historian Doane Robinson conceived the concept of Mount Rushmore in 1923, the idea being to create a monumental attraction in the Black Hills of South Dakota to attract tourists to the area.
