Gist's Brigade

Historical marker location:

530 North Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of North Crest Road and Marshall Street, on the right when traveling north on North Crest Road.)

Marker installed: 1890

Walker's Division - Hardee's Corps.. Brig. Gen. States Rights Gist.

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.