Mount Rushmore To Be Dedicated, Five Decades Late From: The Washington Post | Date: July 1, 1991 | Copyright (null) The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Nearly 50 years after work stopped on sculptor Gutzon Borglum's monument to four presidents whose faces he carved on a granite outcropping in the Black Hills, the work will be formally dedicated this week.

Even though noticeable cracks have creased the faces of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, whose massive countenances are cut into the mountain alongside those of Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial has weathered nature's onslaught so f...

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