Historical Marker
Joe Engel
Historical marker location:
Chattanooga, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of O Neal Street and Engel Drive, on the right when traveling north on O Neal Street.)
1893-1969.
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.