Historical Marker
Fred Horton
Historical marker location:
4 South Washington Street, Iola, Kansas
( Marker is on Washington Street north of Madison Avenue, on the left when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 2014
10/31/1864 - 11/15/1940.
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.