DeKalb County Fair

Historical marker location:

33811 Nashville Hwy, Alexandria, Tennessee

( Marker is on Nashville Highway (U.S. 70) 0.1 miles east of Hillwood Acres, on the right when traveling east.)

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.