Secret Room ( Hall of Records ) Hidden in Mount Rushmore - Tourists NOT ALLOWED in KEYSTONE SOUTH DAKOTA This is VERY INTERESTING information about a secret room in the HALL OF RECORDS at Mount Rushmore that tourists are NOT allowed to see.  President Trump recently mentioned Mount Rushmore. "I am pleased to inform you that THE BIG FIREWORKS, after many years of not having any, are coming back to beautiful Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. Great work @GovKristiNoem and @SecBernhardt! #MAGA  86.5K  9:51 PM - May 7, 2019"   TWEET BY PRESIDENT TRUMP KEYSTONE is the home of Mount Rushmore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSKvNwE7oKo  VIDEO OF THE HALL OF RECORDS SECRET ROOM Sculptor Gutzon Borglum  planned to create a large room within the mountain. This chamber would hold the DOCUMENTS AND ARTIFACTS most central to AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC HISTORY. The proposed large room, 80 by 100 feet was to be drilled into the north wall of the small canyon behind the faces. His scheme also called for an 800-foot granite stairway to reach the room. The steps would begin near his studio, rise gradually to meet the canyon mouth behind Lincoln’s head, and then lead to the entrance of the great hall. Construction of the hall took place between July 1938 and July 1939, when a 70-FOOT TUNNEL WAS BLASTED INTO THE MOUNTAIN. It remains very rough cut, and tapers to a point at the back. Work halted in 1939 when Congress directed that construction should be executed only on the faces. With Borglum’s death in 1941 and American involvement in World War II, all work on the memorial came to a close on October 31, 1941. Although Borglum’s grand scheme for the HALL OF RECORDS had to be abandoned, the idea remained. On August 9, 1998, Gutzon Borglum’s dream was completed when a REPOSITORY OF RECORDS was placed in the floor of the hall entry. This repository consists of a teakwood box, inside a titanium vault, covered by a granite capstone. Etched on the capstone is the following quote by Gutzon Borglum: "...let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and rain alone shall wear them away." https://www.nps.gov/moru/learn/historyculture/hall-of-records.htm