Mount Rushmore
Transcript of Mount Rushmore
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Mount Rushmore By Lucy Halcomb CRA Moncalvillo 2009
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Where is Mount Rushmore?
Mount Rushmore is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It has the faces of four United States presidents carved in the side of a mountian.
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Who is on Mount Rushmore?
• The presidents are: George Washington, Thomas Jeffeson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
• Each president is 18 meters tall.
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Building Mount Rushmore
• Workers worked on the project from 1927-1941. They used dynamite to clear away unwanted rock.
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Before and After
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Visitors
• In the year 2004, over 2,000,000 people visited the monument.
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Entrance
• This is the main enterance to the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
• The memorial has restaurants, gift shops, theaters, museums, walking trails and more. It is open seven days a week.
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Avenue of Flags
• There are 56 flags on display at the Avenue of Flags.
• There is one flag for each of the fifty states, one for the District of Columbia, three for each U.S. territory, and two for each commonwealth.
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Can you climb Mount Rushmore and touch the presidents?
• You can't touch them, but you can use binoculars to see them better.
• This observation deck has binoculars.
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Who designed Mount Rushmore?
• It was designed by Gutzon Borglum.
• Four hundred workers worked on the mounument from 1927-1941.
• Several controversies surround the building of Mount Rushmore.
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Original Plan
• This was the original design for Mount Rushmore, but there wasn’t enough money to finish the work.