Monroe Harding

Historical marker location:

1120 Glendale Lane, Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Glendale Lane and Glendale Square on Glendale Lane.)

Established 1893.

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.