Rushmore,Mount

Rushmore,Mount
Rush·more (rŭshʹmôr', -mōr'), Mount
A mountain, 1,708 m (5,600 ft) high, in the Black Hills of western South Dakota. Its monument with massive carved likenesses of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt was carved under the direction of Gutzon Borglum.

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