Mount Rushmore is located in the Black Hills of southwestern South Dakota in the United States. On the southeast side of the mountain is the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, a colossal sculpture with 60-foot- (18-meter-) tall faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln carved into the granite mountainside. The national memorial site covers 2 square miles (5 square km) and is about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Rapid City, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Custer, and just north of Custer State Park. The mountain was named in 1885 for New York lawyer Charles E. Rushmore.
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