Construction of Mount Rushmore 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 project. Robinson asked architect and sculptor Gutzon Borglum to sculpt and design the monument. Borglum decided to use
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