streets. After the Minneapolis City Council voted to remove the tower in 1892, its signature copper ball sat in the window of a local saloon. New Orleans Towers were erected in New Orleans, Louisiana, starting in the early 1880s. One set of towers illuminated a section of the Mississippi River levee, aiding in loading and unloading ships at night in the busy port. A tower at the busy intersection of Canal Street, Bourbon Street, and Carondelet Street was constructed with a set of four water pipes to aid in fire-fighting in the nearby multi-story buildings. San Jose, California In 1881, a -tall tower was erected spanning the intersection of Santa Clara and Market streets in San Jose, California, making it the first city to be illuminated by electric light west of the Rocky Mountains. James Jerome ("J.J.") Owens, publisher of the San Jose Mercury, came up with the idea for the tower after visiting the first electrical lighting station in San Francisco in 1879. The tower collapsed in a storm on December 3, 1915. In 1977, a nearly half-sized replica, tall, was constructed at the San Jose Historical Museum. Wabash, Indiana Wabash, Indiana, was the first city to use arc lamps: four mounted on the city hall dome, turned on on March 31, 1880. Wabash used a self-regulating lamp invented by Charles Brush in 1870. See also High-mast lighting Light tower (equipment) References External links Tower of Light: When Electricity Was New, People Used It to Mimic the Moon (The Atlantic) City Lights: Austin's Historic Moonlight Towers, "Not Even Past" website, University of Texas Photos of Austin's Moonlight towers, Portal to Texas History San José's Electric Light Tower (1881), History of San Jose "The Servant Girl Annihilator", TruTV Crime Library, Unsolved Crimes "Moonlight Towers", photographs by Andy Mattern Brief History and Map of Moonlight Towers, Austin History Center Infographic and Blueprints of Austin's Moonlight Towers, Sunflower Education Street lighting Buildings and structures in Detroit Buildings and structures in New Orleans Buildings and structures in San Jose, California Towers