Mount Rushmore (South Dakota, USA)

National Memorial

Standing 6000 feet above sea level, this granite mountain near Rapid city was named after Charles E. Rushmore, a New  York mining lawyer. On August 10, 1907, sculptor Gutzon Borglum began carving the 60- foot- high (18.3 m) faces of four American presidents; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Most of the carving was done with precise placement of dynamite

Charles E. Rushmore was an American businessman and attorney for whom Mount Rushmore is named.

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum