South Dakota
Four historic landmarks in South Dakota, across three eras of American history. Start with Mount Rushmore, Wounded Knee and Crazy Horse Memorial.
- Landmarks
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- Eras
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Pictured Mount Rushmore
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Landmarks in South Dakota
- The 20th Century
Mount Rushmore
Keystone, SD
Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota's Black Hills depicts the 60-foot-tall faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, carved directly into a granite mountainside.
Westward ExpansionWounded Knee
Pine Ridge, SD
Wounded Knee is the site of one of the darkest events in American history: the killing of several hundred Lakota men, women, and children by U.S. Army soldiers on December 29, 1890.
The 20th CenturyCrazy Horse Memorial
Crazy Horse, SD
Conceived as an answer to Mount Rushmore's monument to American presidents, Crazy Horse Memorial is a still-unfinished, entirely privately funded mountain carving meant to honor Native American history and dignity on the same scale the nation gave its presidents.
Geological & NaturalCuster State Park
Custer, SD
Named for the officer whose 1874 expedition broke a treaty and triggered a gold rush into land promised to the Lakota, Custer State Park today protects one of the largest public bison herds in the world across some of the most dramatic terrain in the Black Hills.