Inside Mount Rushmore's Hidden Room
Sunday, February 25, 2024
In 1927, construction began in the Black Hills National Forest to sculpt the faces of four U.S. Presidents into the side of a mountain. | | |  | | South Dakota |
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| After 14 years, almost $1 million (equivalent to $15 million today), and the removal of 450,000 tons of rock, Mount Rushmore finally opened to the public in 1941. When the project first began, Borglum had even bigger plans for the sculpture — and technically, Mount Rushmore isn't even halfway complete according to the sculptor's vision. In Borglum's original plan, he not only wanted to depict the four presidents from the waist up, but he also had another grand idea for the monument. Borglum wanted to construct a Hall of Records to house the most important documents and artifacts in American history, instructing his team to blast a 70-foot tunnel into the rock behind Lincoln's head to create a hidden chamber. |
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