Morgan's Ohio Raid

Historical marker location:

Alexandria, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Nashville Highway (U.S. 70) and Foutch Road, on the right when traveling north on Nashville Highway.)

June 11, 1863.

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.