Tower Garden (Austin, Texas)
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On August 1, 1966, a sniper conducted a mass shooting from Main Building Tower. The Tower Garden is a memorial to that tragedy, and was dedicated on August 1, 1999 on the anniversary of the attack.
www.utexas.edu/events/tower/
www.utexas.edu/events/tower/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 30°17'12"N 97°44'22"W
- Barton Creek Greenbelt 9 km
- McKinney Falls State Park 10 km
- Emma Long Metropolitan Park 14 km
- McKinney Roughs Nature Park 29 km
- Pace Bend Park 36 km
- Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge 47 km
- Pedernales Falls State Park 51 km
- Buescher State Park 59 km
- Longhorn Cavern State Park 77 km
- Inks Lake State Park 81 km
- University of Texas at Austin (UT) 0.7 km
- West Campus 0.8 km
- North Campus 1.1 km
- Texas State Capital Complex 1.2 km
- Pemberton Heights 1.6 km
- Old Enfield 1.8 km
- Clarksville 2.1 km
- Bryker Woods Neighborhood 2.1 km
- Downtown Austin 2.2 km
- Travis County 5.3 km