How Did Mount Rushmore Get There?

Have you ever wondered what happened behind the gates of Tuxedo Park when it was first discovered? The book “The World with a Fence Around It,” by George M. Rushmore, is about Tuxedo Park in its first years. Pierre Lorillard was the founder of the Park, while Bruce Price was the architect. Many people visited Tuxedo Park in its early days such as Mark Twain, and Emily Post. Although, Tuxedo Park may be an old town, discovered in 1885 by Pierre Lorillard, it has much to offer, such as, a weekend home, hunting, fishing, and more sports that started around the same time the Park.

There is much debate on how the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids in Giza were built. King Khufu’s pyramid, from the Old Kingdom, stands at 146 meters high, has a base of 230 meters, while using 2.4 million stone blocks; each block averaging between 2.5 to 15 tons (Van Der Mieroop). These extreme numbers force researchers to try and create hypotheses on how the Ancient Egyptians were able to construct such colossal monuments. Although we have an idea of where and how the Egyptians obtained the materials used for their creation, it is still unclear how they were able to take stone blocks that weighted several tons so high up, have such precision that not even a credit card could slip through the blocks, and was capable of pointing the pyramids

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

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.

Lets take a trip back in time to 1884 in the Black Hills of South Dakota. A New York lawyer had just traveled there to inspect mining claims in that region. The man 's name was Charles E. Rushmore. Rushmore was curious by one of the mountains and asked a towns person what the name of the mountain was. The towns person replied saying it had no name. From then on Charles Rushmore started calling it Rushmore Peak. Over time it became known as Mount Rushmore (history.com). During the following years the area of the Black Hills decided they wanted to start attracting tourist the region. I the early 1920s the state historian of South Dakota, Doane Robinson, came up with an idea to attract tourist. He thought of the idea to to carve famous historic heroes of the west into the side of the mountain (history.com). In 1924, Robinson decided to contact the famous American sculptor, Gutzon Borgium, about his idea. Borgium at the time was working on another project for Georgia, but Robinson was able to convince him to abandon his project and come

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.

The Washington Monument used to be the tallest tower in the world. It has iconic structures and it is honoring to the man known as the father of his country. It shows the importance of him for the Americans that even the country has racked up scores of tributes, cities, highways, lakes, mountains, schools and an entire state have been named in his honour. He even got multiple monuments in his name. The Washington Monument, monumental obelisk was worked to respect George Washington, America's first president and stands today as the world's tallest detached stone structure. An unmistakable change in the shade of the stones can be seen around thirty-three percent of the path up the landmark; the somewhat darker stones at the base were put before

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.

If you go to Washington D.C you people won't miss the Lincoln memorial. The statues is 19 feet . It is made from white marble. They started building it on February 12, 1915 which was Lincoln’s birthday. It was finished on May 30,1922. The height of the whole building is about 99 feet. The Lincoln Memorial is a unique monument.

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

Mount rushmore is an amazing site weather in person or on line, because of this they get more than 3 million visitors a year. Some interesting facts are that it took 14 years to build. Also 400 men worked on this project. The project costed the U.S 1 million dollars. Over 90 percent was carved using dynamite, details were finished with jack hammers and hand chisels.

Mount Zion, Washington, located just north of Rock Island, where the winters were cold, the summers were hot and, if you were lucky enough to live near one of its many orchards, the air was rich with the perfume of apple blossoms. It was a town full of remarkably colorful people, however, most coasted through small town life under the radar for various reasons. If you have ever lived in a speck-on-the-map town with a neon city only minutes away, you may have a good idea of what it is like when everyone knows everything about everyone, while, at the same time, your neighbor could pass away and never have existed at all. Thankfully I do not, nor have I ever lived in Mount Zion, Washington.

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.

On May 10, 1996 six people died trying to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. These people were parts of two expeditions that were in the Himalayas, preparing to ascend the summit for six weeks. The first group was under the direction of Rob Hall, who had put 39 paying clients on the summit in five years. Hall was considered the leader of the mountain and the man to see no matter what the discrepancy. Group two, headed by Fisher, who like Hall, was trying to start a profitable business in providing the experience of climbing Mt. Everest to all for the price of 60 to 70 thousand dollars. Unfortunatly, neither man would live to tell the tale of this expedition.