Research Paper On Mount Rushmore

George Washington What structure is in the Black Hills of South Dakota? What structure has heads of 60 feet high? What structure took 14 years to build? Finally what monstrous granite structure is 5725 feet above sea level? The answer to these questions can be answered in two simple words that have a lot of meaning behind them, Mount Rushmore. Mount Rushmore is a massive monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Mount Rushmore has had a tremendous amount of growth as they continue to add new features not to the mountain itself but to areas around it such as gift shops and restaurants. This report shows more information on Mount Rushmore, this report sums up all of the important about Mount Rushmore.

The presidents of Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore is the home of four different historic presidents in American history. These presidents are George Washington, Abraham Lincoln. Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt. Each head on the wall represents some important thing in American history, for example a head wouldn't be put up there for no reason. George Washington represents the first president of the United States, he also represents how he lead the colonists in the Revolutionary war, the war that won independence from Great Britain. Thomas

The Black Hills are near Rapid City. In fact, it is only 23 miles south of Rapid City. Mount Rushmore is at a fairly high elevation, it is 5700 feet above sea level. Each head of is around 60 feet tall! That is around 5 or 6 stories tall! Black Hills, the area that Mount Rushmore is in, is around 120 miles long! Not very big for such a huge American monument. The great monument was originally supposed to have the presidents be sculpted from the waist down, imagine how big that would be, the reason they did not do that is because it just took so long, along with the fact that Mount Rushmore was built through the great depression when money was