Federal Defenses

Historical marker location:

Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of 21st Avenue South and Medical Center Drive, on the right when traveling south on 21st Avenue South.)

Dec. 2-15, 1864.

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.