13 Facts About Mount Rushmore

Sculptor and tribal representatives settled on Mount Rushmore, which has the advantage of facing southeast for maximum sun exposure.

Mount Rushmore is known to the Lakota Sioux as "The Six Grandfathers" or "Cougar Mountain" ; but American settlers knew it variously as Cougar Mountain, Sugarloaf Mountain, Slaughterhouse Mountain and Keystone Cliffs.

Mount Rushmore repeatedly joked with colleagues about naming the mountain after himself.

Mount Rushmore chose Mount Rushmore, a grander location, partly because it faced southeast and enjoyed maximum exposure to the sun.

The carving of Mount Rushmore involved the use of dynamite, followed by the process of "honeycombing", a process where workers drill holes close together, allowing small pieces to be removed by hand.

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However, Mount Rushmore provides access to a surrounding environment of wilderness, which distinguishes it from the typical proximity of national monuments to urban centers like Washington, D C, and New York City.

Mount Rushmore managed to start the project, but cut only 70 feet into the rock before work stopped in 1939 to focus on the faces.

Flora and fauna of Mount Rushmore are similar to those of the rest of the Black Hills region of South Dakota.

Birds including the turkey vulture, golden eagle, bald eagle, red-tailed hawk, swallows and white-throated swifts fly around Mount Rushmore, occasionally making nesting spots in the ledges of the mountain.

Those living near Mount Rushmore are descendants of a tribe that Canada gifted to Custer State Park in 1924, which later escaped.

Mount Rushmore area is underlain by well drained alfisol soils of very gravelly loam to silt loam texture, brown to dark grayish brown.

Mount Rushmore has been depicted in multiple films, comic books, and television series.

In music, American composer Michael Daugherty's 2010 piece for chorus and orchestra, "Mount Rushmore, " depicts each of the four presidents in separate movements.