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By Martin Kelly. Mount Rushmore, the President's Mountain, is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It was the brainchild of Doane Robinson, known as the âFather of Mount Rushmore .â His goal was to create an attraction that would draw people from all over the country to his state.
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began drilling into the 5,725-foot mountain in 1927, at the age of 60. Creation of the Shrine of Democracy took 14 years and cost a mere $1 million. Rushmore's granite faces tower 5,500 feet above sea level. The carvings on Mount Rushmore are scaled to men who would stand 465 feet tall. Each head on Mt. Rushmore is as tall as a six-story building. More that 800 million pounds of stone were removed from Mount Rushmore while carving the presidents.