Historical Marker

“A Being so Gentle And Yet So Virtuous”

Historical marker location:
4580 Rachels Lane, Hermitage, Tennessee
( Marker can be reached from Rachels Lane, 0.3 miles east of Hermitage Road.)

Rachel and Andrew’s Tombs.

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.