Construction of Mount Rushmore studio, now a museum with information about the construction of the monument and the tools used by workers. Construction of Mount Rushmore The construction of Mount Rushmore National Memorial took 14 years, from 1927 to 1941. Doane Robinson of the South Dakota Historical Society wanted a monument to be built in South Dakota in order to help the economy of the state by attracting tourism. In 1923, he proposed that this monument should be built from the granite cliffs in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota approved the proposal, and federal funding helped the
Mount Buangor State Park Mount Buangor State Park Mount Buangor State Park is located 60 kilometres west of Ballarat, Victoria in Bayindeen. The eucalypt trees include yarra and manna gums, blue gums and Messmates, narrow-leaf peppermint gums, snow gums and Red Stringybarks as well as large tree ferns. More than 130 species of birds have been recorded in the Mount Cole State Forest which includes this park. Fauna includes echidnas, deer, eastern grey kangaroos, wallabies, possums, gliders and bats. The local Aboriginal people in the area were the Beeripmo Balug clan of the Djab Wurrung tribe. Mount Buangor was previously known as Flagstaff Hill