"Those Who Came Before"

Historical marker location:

23 East Central Avenue, Caldwell, Kansas

( Marker is on East Central Avenue (U.S. 81) east of South Main Street, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1997

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.