1st Michigan Engineers

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Ivy Street and Hawthorne Street, on the left when traveling east on Ivy Street.)

Marker installed: 1899

Army of the Cumberland. William P. Innes Colonel Commanding.

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.