Mount Rushmore

داکوتای جنوبی ایالتی است در امریکا و یکی از ایالت‌های غرب میانه امریکا به‌شمار می‌رود. پایتخت آن پییر و شهر مهم آن سو فالز است.

واقعه کشتار زانوی زخمی در این ایالت رخ داد (کشتار بی رحمانه 400 تن از مردان, زنان و کودکان سرخ پوست لاکوتایی به دست سواره نظام ایالات متحده در مکانی با نام زانوی زخمی).

اما شاید مهمترین جاذبه این مکان تندیس های چهار رئیس جمهور بزرگ آمریکا ( آبراهام لینکلن، تئودور روزولت، توماس جفرسون، و جرج واشینگتن ) باشد.

این یادبود که در سال ۱۹۲۵ میلادی تاسیس گردید، بر روی زمین های سرخپوستان قبیله لاکوتا قرار دارد.

                               Mount Rushmore

 

Mount Rushmore is a national memorial to four great American presidents. Their faces are carved into the granite wall of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota’s Black Hills. They are, left to right, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.

Four giant faces carved into a mountain gaze out over the Black Hills in southwestern South Dakota. They are the faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. This is the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, one of the world’s largest sculptures. Each face is as high as a six-story building

? WHO CREATED MOUNT RUSHMORE

 

In 1925, the American government decided to create a national memorial honoring four of its greatest presidents. American sculptor Gutzon Borglum designed the memorial. He chose a massive granite bluff called Mount Rushmore as the site for his enormous sculpture

Workers began cutting the faces from Mount Rushmore in 1927. It took more than  14years to finish the memorial.

? HOW DID THEY WORK ON MOUNT RUSHMORE

Workers used dynamite, jackhammers, and chisels to shape the faces into the bluff. The work was very dangerous, taking place hundreds of feet above the valley below. Between 1927 and 1941, 400 men worked on the Mount Rushmore memorial

Washington’s face was the first one carved out of the granite. Jefferson’s face followed. Next came the face of Lincoln, and last of all, Roosevelt

Borglum died before Roosevelt’s face was finished. Borglum’s son, named Lincoln, completed the memorial late in 1941

Mount Rushmore is cared for by the National Park Service. At night, the faces look especially spectacular, brightly lit against a dark sky

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