EP Brigham

Historical marker location:

5 South Jefferson Avenue, Iola, Kansas

( Marker is on Jefferson Avenue north of Madison Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2014

05/19/1859 - 08/14/1937.

The first successful airplane flight west of the Mississippi River took place in Kansas in 1910, when Clyde Cessna flew his plane for the first time in Wichita.