AUSTIN, Texas — There’s something special about Austin’s moonlight towers. Once a popular street lighting system for U.S. and European cities in the late 19th Century, the towers were not ...

First, a Moonlight Towers refresher course. Austin purchased the used, 165-foot-tall structures from Detroit and erected them here in the 1890s, which makes them old enough to have their own ...

Since 1967, the moonlight tower is transformed into the Zilker Tree. Smith added restoring the tower to “tip-top condition” is part of Austin’s preparations for the 50th year of the event.

AUSTIN -- In a bid to preserve Austin's history, the Austin City Council passed an agenda to provide funding to preserve the moonlight towers on Thursday. RELATED: I wonder: Moonlight towers The ...

An Austin, Texas, moonlight tower in the shadow of the moon. Courtesy of Steve/Flickr Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar ...

The moonlight towers, he declared, were a "most brilliant success." A moon tower in Austin, Texas, 1890s (via Not Even Past) But the towers, it turned out, were neither entirely brilliant nor ...

• The moonlight towers have been cursed by many deaths. “We only know of three persons who died falling off them,” Kerr says. “In 1895, two of the light trimmers fell and died.

AUSTIN -- In a bid to preserve Austin's history, the Austin City Council passed an agenda to provide funding to preserve the moonlight towers on Thursday. RELATED: I wonder: Moonlight towers The ...

Since 1967, the moonlight tower is transformed into the Zilker Tree. Smith added restoring the tower to “tip-top condition” is part of Austin’s preparations for the 50th year of the event.

The tower, which was taken down in April, will have energy-efficient LED light bulbs and is one of the original 31 towers that provided the city with its first urban lighting system in 1895.

The tower, which was taken down in April, will have energy-efficient LED light bulbs and is one of the original 31 towers that provided the city with its first urban lighting system in 1895.