Post-presidency of George Washington 21, 1885. In 1923, historian Doane Robinson had developed an idea to make a gigantic sculpture on the Black Hills of South Dakota. Robinson hired renowned sculptor Gutzon Borglum for the job. Borglum, at the time, was making a Confederate memorial on Stone Mountain. Borglum searched for a mountain suitable for his project and he found Mount Rushmore, composed of granite, named after a New York attorney Charles E. Rushmore. Four prominent presidents were chosen for the sculptor to bring national recognition, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Washington was chosen to represent a "light for
St. Charles, Idaho Charles and the rest of the northern Bear Lake Valley settlements in Oneida County, Idaho Territory. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum (1867–1941) was born in St. Charles. St. Charles is located at (42.112493, -111.390001), at an elevation of above sea level. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 131 people, 53 households, and 35 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 138 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was