Montgomery Bell Academy

Historical marker location:

4001 Harding Road, Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Harding Road (U.S. 70S) and Cherokee Road, on the right when traveling east on Harding Road.)

Marker installed: 1975

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.