Timeline Tuesday 4 October 1927

Events on Tuesday 4 October 1927 1

• 1927 Carving of Mount Rushmore begins Work starts on the presidential monument in South Dakota Sculptor Gutzon Borglum and a crew of about 400 workers began carving the granite face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills. The monument depicts Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln. Work continued until 1941.