USA History and Americana
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Mount Rushmore
National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota, is a monumental
granite sculpture located within the United States Presidential Memorial
that represents the first 150 years of the history of the United States
of America with 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of former United
States presidents: George Washington (1732-1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), and Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). The entire memorial covers 1,278 acres (5.17
kmē), and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level. It is managed
by the National Park Service, a bureau of the United States Department
of the Interior. The memorial attracts approximately 2 million people
annually. |
