... 1885 (Presnall 26). When Rushmore and his guide, Bill Challis, approached the grand mountain Rushmore asked what the mountain was called. Challis replied that the site would from now on be called Mount Rushmore. Rushmore was an earlier contributor to the project giving a gift of $5,000 to help fund the gigantic ... was beginning to get impatient. They circled again and soon approached Mount Rushmore. Once he set eyes on the mountain, he knew that was the site for the enormous project. Borglum decided to camp out; he studied the area with pictures and took samples of the granite rock. In ...

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... of toil, the 555-foot, 5 and 1/8-inch Washington Monument was the world's tallest structure for five years, when it was surpassed by Paris' Eiffel Tower. It remains the world's tallest freestanding masonry structure, constructed entirely of stacked granite and marble blocks with no metal structural supports. ... ' prestigious World Heritage List of sites that must be protected at all costs. Visitors today often think of Monticello as an architectural masterpiece, as the site of some of the most beautiful gardens in America, or as a historic monument to Thomas Jefferson. Monticello was, ...

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