Historical Marker
Bledsoe County Jail
Historical marker location:
128 Frazier St, Pikeville, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Frazier Street and Cranwell Street, on the right when traveling north on Frazier Street.)
Tennessee was the site of the first recorded manned flight in history. In 1878, a man named George Washington Pearcy flew a steam-powered aircraft over a field in Shelbyville, Tennessee.