AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin Energy started its work Tuesday morning to transform the moonlight tower in Zilker Park into the Zilker Holiday Tree for the 59th year.
The Zilker Holiday Tree has become a tradition for the community, per a news release from Austin Energy. The tree is installed around the moonlight tower, which is “one of the original 31 towers that provided the City of Austin with its first urban lighting system in 1895.”
“Only 17 of Austin’s original moonlight towers remain and serve as the only working moonlight towers in the world,” Austin Energy said in the release.
Crews with Austin Energy will string the 155-foot-tall tree with 39 strings, each with 81 LED bulbs, according to Clint Correll with Austin Energy. Additionally, he said two stars, each with 100 bulbs, installed at the top of the tree first…