Historical Marker
Parmer School
Historical marker location:
103 Lasalle Ct, Nashville, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Leake Avenue and Park Hill Drive, on the right when traveling west on Leake Avenue.)
Marker installed: 2008
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.