Today marks the official opening of Timberline Lodge located at Oregon’s majestic
Mount Hood. President Franklin Roosevelt (above) spoke to the crowd that had
gathered for the dedication ceremonies, five months before the completion of the
lodge’s interior. It opened to the public in February 1938.
Mount Rushmore during construction
Carving of Abraham Lincoln at Mount Rushmore, ca. 1934
On October 4, 1927, the carving process began on Mount Rushmore National
Memorial in the solid granite Black Hills of South Dakota.The face of Abraham
Lincoln was dedicated on September 17, 1937. Work on the massive sculpture,
one of the largest ever completed, continued until October 1941.
