The Tale of the Most Decorative Mountain in the World – Mount Rushmore

The Birth of Mount Rushmore – Where Did It Get Its Name From?

Initially, for Lakota Sioux (A Native American tribe), the place was known as The Six Grandfathers or Cougar Mountain. Later on, a New York-based lawyer Charles E. Rushmore visited the Black Hills in 1884 following some mining complaints that had to be checked.

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Construction begins on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, circa 1929. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

He asked a local for the name of the nearby mountain. The man is reported to have said: “Hell, it never had a name, but from now on we’ll call the damn thing Rushmore.”

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