Why was Mount Rushmore built?

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"The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt." Gutzon Borglum (the designer) http://www.nps.gov/moru/historyculture/index.htm Nov 16 12, 4:13 AM

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why was mount rushmore built? First, to attract tourists to the Black Hills of South Dakota and second, to build a memorial depicting the ideals of the United States that make this a great country. The reason that the Mount Rushmore project was undertaken was to create something grand in order to pay tribute to the four presidents. But apart from that, he also wanted to commemorate the high ideals that they each had brought to the United States as well as exemplified in themselves. As he said himself that they were picked because they 'commemorate the founding, growth, preservation, and development to the United States.'" http://www.seecove.com/pictures_index/mount_rushmore/why_mount_rushmore_built.html Nov 16 12, 10:02 AM