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Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
is a
sculpture
carved into the
granite
face of
Mount Rushmore
, a granite
batholith
formation in the
Black Hills
in
Keystone, South Dakota
,
United States
. Sculpted by Danish-American
Gutzon Borglum
and his son,
Lincoln Borglum
, Mount Rushmore features 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 and is above sea level.
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