Samuel Doak House

Historical marker location:

690 Erwin Highway, Tusculum, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Erwin Highway (Tennessee Route 107) and Rufe Taylor Road, on the right when traveling east on Erwin Highway.)

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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.