Sabine Hill

Historical marker location:

2328 West G Street, Elizabethton, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from the intersection of West G Street (Tennessee Route 67) and U.S. 321, on the left when traveling west.)

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.