Location: The faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln are carved on the granite wall of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota’s Black Hills.

 Description:

South Dakota's Black Hills provide the back-drop for Mount Rushmore, the world's greatest mountain carving. These 60-foot high faces, 500-feet up, look out over a setting of pine, spruce, birch, and aspen in the clear western air.

 Workers who form this magnificent memorial used drills and dynamite to carve the faces of four exalted presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln into the granite wall of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota’s Black Hills.

 History:

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began drilling into the 6,200-foot mountain in 1927. The "Creation of the Shrine to Democracy" took 14 years and cost a mere $1 million, though it's now deemed priceless.

Gutzon Borglum designed and supervised the work on the memorial from 1927 until his death in 1941. His son, Lincoln Borglum, directed the conclusion of the work.