Mount Rushmore is celebrating it's 73rd anniversary. So many people want to visit the iconic sculpture. Here's a way everyone can visit and celebrate, even if you can't make the trip.

EarthCam has set up a camera looking at the 4 presidents that you can visit live, naked if you want to. Many people can't get out to the monument to enjoy the wonders of it. Now they can. There is also an interactive camera with dots on it for you to click on and learn about the sculpture.

According to about.com

  • It was the brainchild of Doane Robinson, who contacted Gutzon Borglum, and met with him during 1924 and 1925.
  • Congress agreed to match up to $250,000 of funding for the project and created the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission.
  • Work began on the project. By 1933, the Mount Rushmore project became part of the National Park Service. Borglum did not like having the NPS oversee the construction. However, he continued to work on the project until his death in 1941.
  • The four presidents carved in the mountain are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
  • Thomas Jefferson was originally started on George Washington's right. However, after 18 months they realized that it was not working. Jefferson's face was dynamited off and carved on the other side.
  • It took 14 years to complete Mount Rushmore.
  • No one died while building Mount Rushmore.
  • The sculpture cost $989,992.32 to build.
  • There is a cave behind the carving called the "Hall of Records." It was intended to house the story of Mount Rushmore but was never completed due to lack of funding.
  • 90% of the heads were carved with dynamite

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