6th Ohio Infantry

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on North Crest Road north of Coylar Drive, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1908

Hazen's Brigade. Wood'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.