Corse's Brigade

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from North Crest Road near Lightfoot Mill Road.)

Marker installed: 1890

Hugh Ewing's Division. Blair's Corps.

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.