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State Nickname: "The Mount Rushmore State"
Mount Rushmore is a memorial to the birth, growth, preservation and development of the United
States of America. Gutzon Borglum sculpted busts of Presidents George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln high in the Black Hills to represent
the first 150 years of American history.
Borglum's monument to America was a grouping of four leaders who brought the
country from colonial times into the 20th century.
- George Washington, first U.S. President and commander of the Revolutionary army
- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President, author of the Declaration of Independence, and
advocate of westward expansion
- President Abraham Lincoln, 16th President whose leadership restored the Union and
ended slavery on U.S. soil
- President Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President who promoted construction of the Panama
Canal and ignited progressive causes such as conservation and business reform
These 60-foot high faces, 500-feet up, look out over a setting of pine, spruce, birch, and aspen
in the clear western air.
State Slogan: "Great Faces, Great Places"
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