Historical Marker

Walker's Division

Historical marker location:
560 North Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of North Crest Road and Missionary Ridge, on the right when traveling north on North Crest Road.)
Marker installed: 1890

Hardee'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.