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Mount Rushmore National MemorialSample of Honeycomb rock on display in the Lincoln Borglum Museum at Mount Rushmore National Memorial
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Historical Letters and Legislation
 
South Dakota State Historian Doane Robinson.

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South Dakota State Historian Doane Robinson.

South Dakota State Historian, Doane Robinson, was the first to contact Sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, in 1924 to talk over the idea of a mountain carving in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Read Doane Robinson's letter to Gutzon Borglum letter. PDF
 
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum

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Sculptor Gutzon Borglum.

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum's reply to Doane Robinson telegram PDF
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Enabling Legislation
Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission Bill contains the Enabling Legislation
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P.L. 805
Public Law 805
Mount Rushmore Commission
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Did You Know?
There were approximately 400 workers that worked at Mount Rushmore during the carving process from October 1927 to October 1941. Also throughout this extremely dangerous work there were no lives lost.

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