How Did Mount Rushmore Get There?

In the early 1900s St.Pierre on the French Caribbean island of Martinique was famous tourist destination.”It was known as the Paris of the west Indies”, and home to more than 20,000 people,Mount Pelee sits about 4 miles from St Pierre.On May 8, 1902 the volcano erupted. Sending a volcanic surge directly at St.pierre's at a rate of 420 miles per hour.Killing 30,000 people in its wake.National National Geographic News”Deadliest volcano of the 20th century, 100 years later””molly pell and channo wOodage for National Geographic News, 5-8-2”

However, Gutzon Borglum rejected that location and chose Mount Rushmore because of its better granite and facing southeast into the sun. Borglum wanted a national focus and settled on four presidents representing the first 130 years and the expansion of the United States. Construction began in October of 1927 and ended in October of 1941 with a crew of 400 workers. The original design was for the carvings to be from head to waist but after the death of Gutzon Borglum in 1941, his son Lincoln said the sculpture was fine just the way it stands. Only some finish work on the structure was accomplished before it was declared complete. Even with all the dangerous carving and blasting not one fatality occurred at Mount Rushmore while it was being created. Annually two million visitors come to Mount Rushmore to view its magnificent tribute as the Shrine of Democracy.

The project began in October 1927. Borglum and about 400 workers worked to carve the four faces out of the granite. Borglum wanted to salute those four men because they represented American greatness and expansion. Washington's face was dedicated on July 4, 1934; Jefferson's face was next, followed by Lincoln and Roosevelt.

The carving of Mount Rushmore took about 14 years with the help of over 400 workers! They thought about doing the four presidents waist up but did not have enough money to do so. As you can see, they started doing George Washington’s body. Each president’s face is 60 feet tall Dynamite was used, the process they used was called “honeycombing.” 800 million pounds of granite was removed in the sculpting and the whole entire project costed the United States $989,992.32. The idea of making Mount Rushmore was made in 1923 by Doane Robinson. He wanted to find a way to attract tourists. His plan worked because three million people visit the attraction

We infer that George Washington was built first and that he took the most time to build. He was the first president of the United States, so it would only make sense that he would be built first in Mount Rushmore. We also think this inference because he is more detailed than the others. For example, he has a collar of his shirt. And also, it seems as though he was built down to his torso, while the others seemed as though only the heads were built. When we look at the image it looks like the others only have their faces, and another reason we think this is because it looked like he takes up more space than the others do and they were added in afterword because the spacing isn’t great.

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This was not addressed when Mount Rushmore was constructed, and because of this the monument is tainted from its original purpose of honoring former United States presidents. “It is bad enough that white men drove the Sioux from hills they still hold sacred; did they have to carve faces all over them too?” Source C questions, enlightening the reader on the blemished past of Mount Rushmore, and how the placement of such a monument is wholly disrespectful (Source C). The planners of Mount Rushmore failed to recognize the faux pas of defacing the land of people who were disregarded by those to whom this monument is dedicated. Though a group may deem a historical figure or event as worthy for memorialization, when monuments are constructed paying no heed to placement, the original gesture can often be in

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South Dakota is known as the Mount Rushmore state because it is home to the national memorial mount Rushmore. The Mount Rushmore sculpture shows the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. South Dakota is also called the sunshine state, for its bright sunny days. It is also called the coyote state because all the wildlife that is there. South Dakota became a state November 2, 1889 as the 40th state to become one. The population of South Dakota is 814,180 ranked 46th state. South Dakota`s state bird is a Chinese Ring necked Pheasant. South Dakota`s flag has a blue background with a circle in the middle and it has a small town on it. South Dakota`s state tree is the Black Hills Spruce tree. Also

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It started as an idea to draw sightseers, but in 1923 state historian Doane Robinson suggested carving some giant statues in South Dakota's Black Hills. Robinson was not the first American to think that a big country demanded big art. As early as 1849, Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton proposed a super-scale Christopher Columbus in the Rocky Mountains (1). In 1886 the 150-foot Statue of Liberty was unveiled. In the 1920's, an unconventional sculptor named Gutzon Borglum was carving a Confederate memorial on Stone Mountain in Georgia. Robinson wanted his sculptures to stand at the gateway to the west, where the Black Hills rise from the plains as a geographical prelude to the Rocky Mountains. Here, the granite outcropping resist erosion to form the Needles, a cluster of tall, needle-like peaks reminiscent of the spires on a Gothic cathedral.