National wonders

Hoover Dam and Mount Rushmore stamps.

USPS has announced that its 2008 Express Mail and Priority Mail stamps will feature the Hoover Dam and Mount Rushmore. The stamps go on sale June 12, 2008.

The Hoover Dam, the subject of the new Express Mail stamp, was named for former President Herbert C. Hoover in 1931. The dam is a national historic landmark and is located on the Arizona-Nevada border, 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas. The structure is the nation’s tallest concrete dam and was the tallest dam ever built when completed in the mid-1930s.

The Priority Mail stamp features an illustration of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Completed in 1941, the monument features large-scale sculptures of four American presidents — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

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