Alcoa's First Fire Hall

Historical marker location:

Alcoa, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Springbrook Road and East Edison Street, on the right when traveling north on Springbrook Road.)

Marker installed: 2019

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.