It took more than 400 workers 14 years to carve the heads of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln into ...
June 6: The Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission is created. Rapid City mayor John Boland is named president of the Commission's executive committee. Workers carving the Jefferson head ...
An archival photo depicting the preliminary design carved in plaster unveiled ... The post People Shocked Realizing What Mount Rushmore Was Supposed to Look Like Before Funding Ran Out appeared ...
The carving began in 1927 ... It was 14 years later before Mount Rushmore was declared 'finished' on October 31, 1941, Borglum had already passed away in the March of that year.