Mount Rushmore is an American peak turned memorial in the town of Keystone, near Rapid City, South Dakota. Consisting of a monumental granite sculpture made between 1927 and 1941, it retraces one hundred and fifty years of the country's history. Gutzon Borglum's sculptures, eighteen meters high, represent four of the most significant presidents in American history from the 1770s to the 1900s. They are from left to right George Washington (1732-1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) and Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865).