The Birth of Mount Rushmore – Where Did It Get Its Name From?
Initially, for Lakota Sioux (A Native American tribe), the place was known as The Six Grandfathers or Cougar Mountain. Later on, a New York-based lawyer Charles E. Rushmore visited the Black Hills in 1884 following some mining complaints that had to be checked.
He asked a local for the name of the nearby mountain. The man is reported to have said: “Hell, it never had a name, but from now on we’ll call the damn thing Rushmore.”