Austin's Moonlight Towers
Austin's Moonlight Towers
This is one of the 31 original moonlight
towers installed in Austin in 1895.
Seventeen remain. Each tower
illuminated a circle of 3000 feet
using 6 carbon arc lamps (now mercury
vapor). Austin's tower lights are the
sole survivors of this once-popular
ingenious lighting system.
1993
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