Secret Base Theories
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Since it’s been open to the public, many people believe that there is a secret government base of sorts underneath the monument. South Dakota would have been the perfect scape goat as an unlikely place to plot.
The Original Plan
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The original designer of Mount Rushmore wanted to sculpt a famous scene from American History into the mountainside, but eventually, everyone decided that these presidents’ faces would be best.
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