Smith-Carter House

Historical marker location:

1100 Gibson Dr, Madison, Tennessee

( Marker is on Gibson Drive, 0.2 miles north of Due West Avenue, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2018

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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.