99th Ohio Infantry

Historical marker location:

703 South Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on South Crest Road west of Waheela Road, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1908

Whitaker's Brigade, Cruft's Division. 4th 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.