Tag: Mount Rushmore

This day in history we feature Mount Rushmore. After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed on this day in 1941. Trivia – Mount Rushmore Mount Rushmore National Memorial is centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dakota. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum […]

Gutzon Borglum was an American sculptor born on this day in 1867, best known for his work on Mount Rushmore. Did you know that: • Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, on this day in 1655• Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville received a patent for his phonautograph on this day in 1857• Irving […]