Tennessee State Capitol

Historical marker location:

604 Charlotte Ave, Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is on Charlotte Avenue just west of 6th Avenue North, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2003

National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

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.