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 * Mount Rushmore National Memorial** is a [|sculpture] carved into the [|granite] face of Mount Rushmore near [|Keystone], [|South Dakota], in the [|United States]. Sculpted by [|Gutzon Borglum] and later by his son [|Lincoln Borglum], Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of former [|United States presidents] (in order from left to right) [|George Washington], [|Thomas Jefferson], [|Theodore Roosevelt] and [|Abraham Lincoln].[|[1]] The entire memorial covers 1,278.45 acres (5.17 km2)[|[2]] and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level.[|[3]]