Osterhaus' Division

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on Ridge Avenue north of South Crest Place, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1890

Blair's Corps.. Brig. Gen. Peter J. Osterhaus.

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.