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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.
Entrance sign to Mount Rushmore National Memorial. In honor of Presidentsâ Day, weâve compiled a brief history, in numbers, of Mount Rushmore: 1885: When the 5,275-foot mountain in South Dakotaâs Black Hills was named for a New York lawyerâCharles E. Rushmoreâwho reportedly traveled west to verify some land titles and subsequently returned to the East Coast with a mountain named after him.