Park
Zilker Metropolitan Park
Riverside park built around a spring-fed pool, with limestone terraces and gardens raised during the Great Depression.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Zilker Metropolitan Park in Austin follows Andrew Zilker, an ice tycoon who also ran the local school board, through the nineteen-seventeen deal that moved three hundred fifty acres of spring-fed land into city hands for a sum meant to fund vocational classes. It carries the story into the Depression, when federal relief crews arrived at the springs to build the structure you see today. Listen for how a self-made fortune and a public bargain ended up shaping the same stretch of riverfront.
This audio guide was created using AI.