Historical Marker
Yoakum Station
Historical marker location:
5214 Highway 63, Speedwell, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 63 and Ausmus Road, on the right when traveling north on State Highway 63.)
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.