Mount Rushmore

By Lucy Halcomb CRA Moncalvillo 2009

Where is Mount Rushmore?
Mount Rushmore is
located in the Black
Hills of South
Dakota. It has the
faces of four United
States presidents
carved in the side of
a mountian.
 Who is on Mount Rushmore?
• The presidents are:
George Washington,
Thomas Jeffeson,
Theodore
Roosevelt, and
Abraham Lincoln.
• Each president is 18
meters tall.
Building Mount Rushmore
• Workers worked on
the project from
1927-1941. They
used dynamite to
clear away
unwanted rock.
Before and After
 Visitors
• In the year 2004,
over 2,000,000
people visited the
monument.
 Entrance
• This is the main
enterance to the Mount
Rushmore National
Memorial.
• The memorial has
restaurants, gift shops,
theaters, museums,
walking trails and more.
It is open seven days a
week.
Avenue of Flags
• There are 56 flags on
display at the Avenue of
Flags.
• There is one flag for
each of the fifty states,
one for the District of
Columbia, three for each
U.S. territory, and two
for each commonwealth.
 Can you climb Mount Rushmore and
touch the presidents?
• You can't touch
them, but you can
use binoculars to
see them better.

• This observation
deck has binoculars.
Who designed Mount Rushmore?

• It was designed by
Gutzon Borglum.
• Four hundred workers
worked on the
mounument from
1927-1941.
• Several controversies
surround the building of
Mount Rushmore.
 Original Plan
• This was the original
design for Mount
Rushmore, but there
wasn’t enough
money to finish the
work.