37th Ohio Infantry

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on North Crest Road near Lightfoot Mill Road, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1908

Lightburn's Brigade. Morgan L. Smith's Division.

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.