14th Ohio Infantry

Historical marker location:

314 North Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on North Crest Road north of Crest Terrace Drive, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1908

Phelp's Brig., Baird's Div., 14 Corps.. Lieut. Col. Henry D. Kingsbury.

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.